Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Actress Elisabeth Bergner he left ?2,000 for "the best performance ever given in any play of mine (The Boy David)." To his divorced wife, Mrs. Mary Cannan, he left ?1,000 and a life annuity of ?600. To his adopted son, Publisher Peter Llewellyn Davies, inspiration for Peter Pan, he left ?6,000 and half the residuary estate. The other half of the residuary estate, in addition to ?30,000 and the royalties from all his works except Peter Pan, he left to Lady Cynthia Asquith, his secretary and longtime friend...
Ever since Pan American Airways established tiny Wake Island as the third stop to & from China, the airport's chief ornamental feature has been an old anchor. Corroded by decades of salt water, its flukes almost rusted away, the ancient piece of iron rises seven feet above a rough concrete base in the centre of "The Park" between the landing stage and hotel. But until last week nobody was able to tell passengers much about Wake's old anchor...
...China. The U. S. personnel of China National Aviation Corp. was last week on its way home-the air line (owned 55-45 by China and Pan American Airways respectively) abandoned by Pan American which operated it. its planes commandeered for war service. Standards of New Jersey and California...
...undertake this great campaign, the Japanese Government appointed General Iwane Matsui to supreme command of the combined army and navy forces. Matsui understands the Chinese almost as well as his own countrymen, once cooperated with that intense Chinese patriot Sun Yatsen, "Founder of the Chinese Republic," to promote "Pan-Asianism" in China. Though this credo was directed against China's National Government as well as against Russia, Matsui was shrewd enough to fool a good many naturally-cautious Chinese, was received with open arms wherever he went. Now his job is not to fool them but to fight them...
Spurred by Curtiss-Wright's success, Hamilton Standard last week revealed that it too has a full-feathering prop. Worked by hydraulic pressure, the Hamilton blade has been ordered in small quantities by United and American Airlines for twin-motored use, by Pan American for its vast four-motored Boeing Clippers now abuilding in Seattle...