Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with axle grease and the latest in horse shoes by our service stations, which same extend in an unbroken chain all the way from the Colombian border to Panama City (?). No doubt but that the trail blazed by Señor Divo is the forerunner of the Pan-American Highway through this jungle and we wish to announce that our Service Stations have gained a decided jump on the engineers by moving in prior to the survey of the road...
...Presidents of the 20 more or less democratic republics of Latin America Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight dispatched copies, inscribed and handsomely printed at his own expense, of the enthusiastically democratic speeches he delivered during his junket to the Pan-American Peace Conference in Buenos Aires last year. Last week came a singularly disappointing response from Good Neighbor Roosevelt's "good friend" President Getulio Dornelles Vargas of Brazil...
Four years ago, Pan American-Grace Airways had its first ,big South American freight order, a 55-ton shipment. Fortnight ago, the same line signed the largest air express contract on record and last week reported the successful completion of the first dozen bites into the 1,000,000 Ib. of equipment that it has agreed to fly over the Andes into northern Bolivia to reopen a gold mine abandoned two centuries...
...Buenos Aires conference, Commissioner Studebaker and Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles hatched the idea a year ago. The programs, based on careful historical research by a staff headed by Dr. Samuel Guy Inman, adviser to the U. S. delegates at Buenos Aires, are checked by university professors, Pan American Union authorities and the Office of Education, but not by the State Department, which diplomatically avoids seeing the scripts. These have been in preparation for six months under Dr. William Dow Boutwell, director of the Federal radio project, and Irving Reis, CBS production director...
Over Sea. From July to end of October U. S.-owned Pan American Airways, British-owned Imperial Airways, Ltd. and German-owned Deutsche Lufthansa have flown big, new airplanes 26 times over the North Atlantic, piled up 90,000 miles of ocean flight. Weakest of nations in 1937's international bid for future U. S.-Europe air business has been France. Following the abandonment of the Paris-sponsored mass race over the Atlantic in May and the failure of Portugal to reply to France's request for permission to use the Azores, not one French airplane attempted...