Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same article, TIME misstated the order in which "overweather" ships will be supplied by Boeing Aircraft Co. to TWA and Pan American. Boeing's first two four-motored overland transports will be "stratosphere" ships (air-conditioned for passengers up to 20,000 ft.) for Pan American, designed to embody high flight principles worked out by Pan American research with Boeing engineers since 1929. The next six, for TWA, may be similarly adapted for high altitudes if the 500-hr. test flying required by Pan American on its ships is satisfactory...
...President Roosevelt put his signature to eight treaties and conventions drafted at Buenos Aires last December and recently ratified by the Senate. The President's action thus solidified Pan-American good neighborliness, at least between the U. S., the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua, the only three nations which have so far ratified...
Died-Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams, explorer and lecturer, wife of Franklin Pierce Adams, onetime counselor of the Pan-American Union; in Nice, France. Mrs. Adams headed expeditions in Haiti, Africa, Siberia and Sumatra, made a threeyear, 40,000-mi. journey through South America starting in 1903. In 1916, she was the first woman War correspondent to visit the front-line trenches. In 1925, she organized the International Society of Woman Geographers...
Completing their first round-trip survey flights preliminary to regular transatlantic service, Pan American Airways' Clipper III and Imperial Airways' Caledonia passed each other one day last week high above the tossing wastes of the Atlantic Ocean. Both big flying boats were maintaining constant radio contact with British stations in Newfoundland and Ireland and Pan American bases in New Brunswick and New York. Few hours later the flights ended uneventfully. The Caledonia landed at Foynes in Ireland, continued to Southampton. The Clipper III landed at Botwood, Newfoundland, continued to Port Washington...
...thing Amelia Earhart Putnam still wanted to do?for the fun of it?was to fly around the world. She started from Miami, Fla. on June i with Fred Noonan, onetime Pan American navigator. They made mostly back page news until last fortnight when they started across 2,550 miles of Pacific Ocean toward tiny Howland Island, failed to reach it. Last week the likelihood was approaching sad certainty that Amelia Earhart Putnam had made headlines for the last time...