Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expedition, directed by Dr. Clyde Fisher, of the Hayden Planetarium, New York, Major Stevens was primarily interested in getting high enough to photograph the spectacular course of the moon's shadow as it raced along the earth and cloud tops. His observations were made near Lima, Peru, in a Pan American Grace Airways plane...
Five months ago Glenn L. Martin, who is anything but friendly to Pan American Airways since they bought only three of his Clippers, suddenly announced that his booming plant at Baltimore would build a still bigger flying boat for an unnamed company being organized to fly the Atlantic. Who, air men wondered, would have the temerity to challenge Pan American on the Atlantic? Transcontinental & Western Air? Royal Dutch Air Lines (K. L. M.)? Onetime Director of Air Commerce Eugene Vidal and friends? Last week the ambitious newcomer was finally revealed: American Export Lines, which operates 18 ships to the Mediterranean...
Behind this starring scheme lurks the stocky figure of James Murchie Eaton, a dynamic bachelor of 48 who has been causing U. S. airlines considerable worry ever since he left Pan American in 1931. As general traffic manager for P. A. A., Jim Eaton was largely responsible for that great line's superb traffic system. He left to become president of ill-starred Ludington Air Lines, which tried to operate without a mail contract between New York and Washington, was eventually sold to Eastern. Since then Jim Eaton has been identified with an unsuccessful scheme to start flying boat...
...make it possible to discontinue the construction of large, expensive boats. The practice of the future will be to construct combination passenger and freight boats, but to carry by airplane first-class mail, express matter and the passenger who is in a hurry. . . . I hold no brief against Pan American Airways. . . . The service which they propose for Europe will serve Atlantic ports of Europe and England, whereas we will serve Mediterranean and Black Sea ports...
Recently Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper has made pointed remarks about Pan American's "monopoly." And the new Maritime Commission has lately appointed Grover Loening, famed early plane designer, to advise it on such matters as subsidizing transatlantic airships or planes. Aviation folk therefore were betting last week that American Export would win Government permission for its new venture. Far less easy is likely to be the rapid establishment, without planes, personnel, experience or foreign landing rights of a long-distance airline over the world's toughest aerial route...