Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...European sections of the bands have become crowded with Italy, Germany, Russia and, of late, Britain all trying to influence other nations with short-wave political broadcasts. Europe would like some of the U. S. space but is little likely to get it at the Cairo meeting for the Pan-American nations last autumn agreed to back the U. S. in a bloc. Representing the U. S. was a commission of four, a staff of 25, headed by veteran U. S. delegate to international radio parleys, Maine's heavy-jowled Senator Wallace H. White Jr. It will be Senator...
...winter-holiday trippers, who have been pouring into Mexico over the new Pan-American highway in increasing numbers, were inclined to regard this as a slight overstatement. Mexico is far from Sunday-afternoon quiet. Almost daily occurrences for the past few months have been bloody strikes, clashes between rival labor groups, bandit raids, ominous grumbles by the newly-enfranchised peons against the failure of President Lázaro Cárdenas' agrarian program and revolts by disenfranchised landlords. Crux of the trouble is Cárdenas' lack of money. With a failing credit he has had to curtail...
Fire. Seven thousand miles away in Washington, shocked by the line's second and by far most costly fatal accident,* Pan American's president, Juan Terry Trippe, sorrowfully announced: "Everyone connected with Pan American Airways is grieved beyond expression. . . . The death of Captain Musick and his crew is an irreparable blow to our company and will be a distinct loss to American aviation. Captain Musick contributed much to American prestige in the air." In President Trippe's opinion, "The Samoan Clipper was destroyed by fire of unknown origin . . . incidental to the discharge of fuel." What caused...
...this winter's tour, Sam Snead has proved he is no.flash in the pan. In two weeks of play, ending Christmas Day, the cool, phlegmatic juvenile lead had won the Miami Open, the Nassau Open and placed fourth in the Miami-Biltmore Open. He had won $2,000 in two weeks, had played twelve rounds of grueling competitive golf with an average of less than 69 strokes a round. In the Miami Open he had reached his peak when he zoomed away from the field to finish 13 strokes under par, scoring a 68, 67, 66, 66. Sam Snead...
...Musick made initial flight for Pan-American airways from Key West to Havana, and flew the first RI-motor airplane ever to be used on an airline. Recently he completed twenty-five years of perfect record flying, without accident or casualty. Always conservative, intelligently cautions, and yet daring within the safeguards of common sense, he loyally and effectively advanced Pan Air's safety record and the general progress of aviation. Fortunately there are other like him who will continue the fine tradition which he established, so that his untimely death will not stop America's forward advances in safe flying...