Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe pan-wielders are invited to pit their feminine wiles against the artistic abilities of their male competitors. The starting gun goes off at 7:30 o'clock...
Only one major domestic line, Eastern Air Lines, Inc., showed a profit; but its net of $1,259,196 was only one-quarter of the year before. Pan American Airways Corp., partly because of currency restrictions (for which it had to put aside a "very substantial reserve"), turned in a profit of $2,960,000, slightly below 1946, despite a big expansion in operations...
...official red silk cape thrown over an overcoat, Prosecutor Ho Chung-pan of the Hopehi High Court sat behind a small wooden table upon which was placed a writing set and paper. Yoshiko stood at attention four feet from him. "Your appeal has been rejected," Ho piped shrilly. "I am here to see that .the order of your execution is carried out immediately. Have you any last wishes...
...called to straighten out kinks in the Inter-American system, to formalize acts taken at five special conferences*held in the war years since the last plenary meeting at Lima in 1938. Major item in the agenda: a new Organic Pact of the Americas, which would give the Pan American Union more power, place political and military matters under its wing...
Among Latin representatives: Pan American Union's Director Alberto Lleras Camargo, working on his home field (he is a Bogotano), Argentina's Foreign Minister Juan Bramuglia, Brazil's ex-Foreign Minister Joao Neves da Fontoura, Mexico's Foreign Minister Jaime Torres Bodet. They did not know how long the parley would last, but they were prepared for a good many weeks in Bogota...