Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pan American Airways was the first to act. Mindful of early Boeing flying boats and of the 299's splendid wing design, P. A. A. last autumn gave Boeing a contract for six gigantic Clippers, each to have two decks, carry 60 passengers, weigh 41 tons, speed at 200 m.p.h. These vast flying boats are now well along at Boeing's plant on the Duwamish Waterway, Seattle, the biggest seaplanes under construction in the U. S. Last week Boeing won an even juicier contract - to build the biggest land transports...
Amid the barren, mud-colored hills surrounding Chile's Chuquicamata, stood last week a knot of enthusiastic newshawks. They had stopped off on their way home from a Pan-American Press Conference at Valparaiso for a gigantic entertainment specially staged for them by the world's largest copper mines. They were to see one of the world's largest explosions, the firing of 3,000,000 Ib. of dynamite...
...Isadore Polisuk, a Bronx dress manufacturer, went down to a Greenwich Village little theatre to see Hard Pan, an 1849 gold-digging drama by one Edward Eustace. Mr. Polisuk was anxious to take a flier in show business, where shoestrings occasionally lead to fortunes. He offered Mr. Eustace Sioo for his play. Playwright Eustace took...
With the script of Hard Pan in his pocket, Dress Manufacturer Polisuk next approached Producer Sam H. Harris who was persuaded to split production costs with him. Producer Harris called in George Kaufman to doctor Hard Pan and George Kaufman, the Great Collaborator, called in Laurence Stallings (collaborator of What Price Glory?) to help. Hard Pan was rewritten three times and renamed Eldorado. It was opened in 1931 with a split week in New Haven and Hartford, Conn. It then limped into Newark and folded up. Messrs. Kaufman & Stallings, who were to have received one-third of the profits...
...Last week, however, a Lockheed Electra of Compañia Mexicana de Aviación, subsidiary of Pan American Airways, crashed and burned with nine aboard in a jungle swamp near Vera Cruz...