Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pan American clipper America, which had flown off 13 days and 3 hours earlier from LaGuardia Field into the east, returned from the west last week. It had flown around the world, inaugurating the first round-the-world air service. Pan Am will operate two regular flights a week-one west from San Francisco, one east from New York. Domestic airlines will complete the transcontinental gap in the circle. Globe-girdling fare...
First prize-$600 and a gold medal-went to pretty, rosy-cheeked Jessie Hazard Smith, an Edmonton housewife. Her dish: Alberta Gold Medal ranch steak, cut off the fillet, rump, sirloin or tenderloin, dipped in salad oil, grilled in a hot pan from eight to twelve minutes, spread with one tablespoon of butter and sprinkled with salt & pepper...
...Heart was grown in the same fertile Tin Pan Alley patch as Dardanella, Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong, Blue Is the Night, Ireland Must Be Heaven, and Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine. But Peg O' My Heart grew more slowly than Fred Fisher's other hits, did not reach full bloom until the doughboys came home whistling...
...Berlin of his day. His Dardanella (he wrote the lyrics) sold an alltime high of six million records and almost two million copies of sheet music. He organized the Fred Fisher Music Co., grossed nearly $1,000,000 in his first year. Later, as a manager of another Tin Pan Alley firm (Harms), Fred Fisher had such hopefuls as George Gershwin and Jerome Kern on his staff...
Fourteen people died in the leaping fire on the desert not far from the river Euphrates, near Meyadine, in Syria. Arabs helped Stewardess Bray and 21 other survivors of the wreck of the Pan American World Airways Eclipse, a four-motored Constellation that had left Karachi, India, a few hours before, bound for La-Guardia Field, New York...