Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week Juan Terry Trippe, affable, granitic president of Pan American Airways, received from the hands of President Roosevelt the bronze certificate of award of the Collier Trophy, bestowed every year for distinguished service to aviation. The trophy itself, a lush piece of statuary two feet high, stood on the President's desk. The National Aeronautic Association, which decides each year's winner, awarded the trophy this year to Pan American Airways for "establishment of the trans-Pacific airline and the successful execution of extended over-water navigation and the regular navigation thereof." Trumpeted Collier...
...Sikorsky 543 transport of Pan-American-Grace Airways, carrying n passengers and crew of three from Santiago, Chile, radioed it was circling in a rainstorm over the field at Cristobal, C. Z., where it was scheduled to transfer its passengers to a northbound Pan-American Clipper. No more was heard from the Sikorsky. Next day its wreckage was found 20 mi. west of Cristobal, all on board presumably lost...
...were walking down Post Street toward Union Square. Said Speculator Smith: "I feel like taking a trip." Replied Banker Bickell: "That's a great idea. I'll go anywhere you want ." At that moment they were opposite the St. Francis Hotel which houses the offices of the Pan American Airways. Gleefully they stepped inside, ordered two tickets to China on next day's China Clipper...
Because Banker Bickell's passport was in Toronto, Pan American was forced to refuse them. Undismayed, Speculator Smith phoned his great and good friend, Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord, who assured him that an American Airlines mail plane could pick up the passport at Buffalo N. Y. Banker Bickell called his secretary, had a plane chartered to fly the passport there. Next morning the passport arrived at San Francisco without a special delivery stamp. The post office was persuaded to scramble through six sacks of air mail to fish it out. Back at the Pan American offices. Operator Smith...
...clue or information which would "definitely clear up" the mid-Pacific disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator Captain Fred J. Noonan (TIME. July 12 et seq.), her husband George Palmer Putnam posted a reward with the Pan-Pacific Press Bureau. Amount...