Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them: Costa Rica, Honduras, the Dominican Republic of Fellow-Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay. If enough of the American republics gave him the right hand of fellowship, he felt that the U.S. would follow. That would again make him a member in good standing in the Pan-American nations club...
Chewing his way through some apple pan dowdy in the Union yesterday noon, the Freshman suddenly bit into a small piece of window-glass. He took it to the waitress...
Charles A. Lindbergh turned up in Hong Kong on "Pan American Airlines business," gave it a touch of mystery by asking newsmen not to report anything except the bare fact of his arrival...
Even before the war, the Big Five no longer dominated the merchandising field. Piggly Wiggly, Sears, Roebuck and others had moved in. Now Pan American and United Air Lines finished cracking the transport monopoly once enjoyed by the Big Five's Matson steamship line. More visitors were arriving in Hawaii by air than by sea. But the Big Five still supplies most of the direction and driving power for the islands' economy...
Writing music (unless you include Tin Pan Alley hits) is no way to get rich quick. So it was news that a tall, gangling musician named Leroy Robertson had got $25,000 for a long-haired orchestra piece. Probably no piece of classical music had ever been so handsomely paid for.* The money Robertson got for his Trilogy would have supported Mozart or Schubert for life...