Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a car owner cried that postwar models seemed to have been purposely constructed to "damage easy and repair hard." On several new cars the whole engine had to be unbolted and lifted before the crankcase pan could be removed. Fenders had become wholly or partly an integral part of body panels: before smashed fenders could be replaced, the whole panel had to be removed. A Denver dealer who sold and installed a rear fender on a 1948 model for $20.75 charged $85 for the same job on a 1949 model of the same...
Even on the international runs, where air traffic was still rising, the planes were getting stiff competition from luxury liners. Many ships were already booked full for next summer while plane reservations lagged. To get the business back, American Overseas Airlines, Pan American Airways and T.W.A. cut their transatlantic round-trip rates for the winter to about 1⅓ the price of a single summer fare. Sample Pan Am rate: New York to London, $466.60, down from...
...Harried by competition from brisk, unscheduled Trans Caribbean Airways, Pan Am last week made one of the industry's steepest cuts. To lure passengers on its Puerto Rican run it instituted a "coach" service. By ripping out the galley and some baggage racks, it now puts 63 (v. 52) passengers into its DC-4 planes, has cut the one-way fare from $133 to $75 (plus...
Airline men, who know that they must tap the middle and lower income groups if they are to survive the air travel slump, expect that Pan Am's trick will soon be adopted by other lines. Said T.W.A.'s Warren Lee Pierson: "The principle of low-cost service has been recognized by the steamships and the railroads while the airlines have stubbornly clung to a one-class service. It's time the airlines offered a choice of classes...
...young Jane Powell, who is expected to carry the burden of a clumsy plot about a sea captain (George Brent) and his amorous passengers. Miss Powell makes a game try against heavy odds. The handling of Mr. Melchior, who also tries hard, is in the Hollywood tradition: two pan shots of enraptured listeners to every shot of an opera singer in action. Luxury Liner has also stowed in its cargo Xavier Cugat, his orchestra, and his miniature pooch. The ship was badly overloaded before it ever cast...