Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after performing an autopsy on the last man to die, he thought of yellow jack. He checked, found that all five dead were jungle farmers from an area 35 miles east of Panama City. He sent part of the last man's liver to Washington. Last week the Pan American Sanitary Bureau made it official: the five had died of jungle yellow fever...
...Beguine, Just One of Those Things, What Is This Thing Called Love?, Night and Day and I Get a Kick Out of You) ranked last year among the 35 all-time U.S. popular favorites. (The record is matched only by Irving Berlin, and was not equaled by such Tin Pan Alley titans as Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers...
When American Airlines Chairman C. R. Smith began dickering to sell his overseas subsidiary to Pan American Airways Corp., he did not mention it to American's president, Ralph S. Damon. Smith knew what Damon would say. Damon had been the most outspoken critic of Pan Am President Juan Trippe's version of the "chosen instrument" (one "community" line made up of several U.S. airlines) in U.S. international aviation...
Luis Amescua of Winthrop House and Mexico City; Mexico Central Bank Scholarship; Freshman Jubilee Committee, 1945; Winthrop House Committee; Winthrop House Debating Team; Junior Steering Committee of the Pan-American Society of New England; Harvard Relief Committee...
Modest Boast. As the session broke up Christmas Eve in the ornate, damask-walled council room of the Pan American Union, all the delegates seemed satisfied. O.A.S. Secretary General Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia allowed himself a modest boast: "This is a little quicker than the U.N. Security Council...