Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ricardo J. Alfaro, former president of Panama, and for many years Panamanian minister to the United States, will discuss present day problems of Pan Americanism in three public lectures next week...
...Fruit Growers Exchange. Like most Warner pictures, Gold Is Where You Find It contains capsules of information for the curious, sugarplums for the romantics, action for whistle-&-stomp addicts. With the footnoting style of the documentary film, it begins by sketching the change in mining technique from the pick-&-pan methods of the forty-niners to the high-pressure system of 30 years later. As the rows of hydraulic monitors claw the gold from the hillsides with watery talons, farm lands in the valley below are mucked under by the sluiced silt. Actor George Brent commands the monitors and their...
...call for bids on Yankee Clippers-airplanes three times larger than any constructed in the United States-was issued by the Pan American Airways shortly after the return to the United States of its distinguished technical adviser (1 Roscoe Turner, 2 Charles A. Lindbergh, 3 Donald Douglas, 4 Fred D. Fagg, 5 Clarence Chamberlain...
...Chicago Defender, one of the largest U. S. colored newspapers, announced to 97,000 readers that next week it would publish a column by Marva Trotter Louis, wife of dead-pan Actor-Pugilist Joe Louis, which would "unfold all that's new ... for each dressy hours of the day and evening...
Seven years ago, in Washington's Pan American Union, diplomats blushed almost as red as the Union's macaw, Lorito, when that platitude-hating bird garnished a radio speech by President Herbert Hoover with a raucous Bronx cheer. Recently Lorito's obscene outcries (in Spanish & Portuguese) were silenced forever when he was done to death by David, the Union's gaudy green parrot. Last week, the parrot-murderer, possessed of Lorito's testy spirit, interrupted Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who was giving a speech to the Union (on Davis Cup drawings), with a Bronx...