Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pan-American Union is still, after 58 years, the chief repository of the hemispheric idea. It files treaties, prepares conferences, continues to bring together such indifferent neighbors as the U.S. and Argentina on such everyday matters as the mails, hygiene, labor relations. In the Union's glittering marble palace in Washington last week, the governing board met to choose a new chairman. Their first choice: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden. He declined, on the grounds that the U.S. had held the post too often. Chosen instead, to serve till 1947: Colombia's representative to the Pan...
Undulant fever is a mysterious disease that makes uncounted millions miserable. In 1914 a French physician, Dr. Charles Nicolle, predicted that it might some day become the No. 1 human disease (it was then widely prevalent among cattle). Last week in Mexico City, delegates to a Pan American Congress on the disease agreed that, unhappily, Dr. Nicolle's prediction seemed likely to come true. Undulant fever, barely 40 years ago an ailment chiefly of the Mediterranean world,* is already a major problem in most of North and South America...
...venture for venturesome, 37-year-old Bob Fulton. After he graduated from Harvard in 1931, he studied architecture at the University of Vienna, motorcycled from London to Tokyo in 18 months, wrote a book (One Man Caravan, Harcourt, Brace; $3), made a lecture tour of the U.S., worked for Pan American Airways and formed Continental Inc. This last manufactured $6 million worth of aeronautical equipment. Main item: the "gunairstructor," Navy training device Fulton invented...
...three weeks for seats on both Braniff and C.M.A., except during the short off-season slack, would question this statement. Tom Braniff questioned it immediately. Said he: "The order of the minister ... is merely one of a long series of actions unfriendly to Aerovias Braniff, but showing partiality to Pan American Airways and its Mexican subsidiary...
...Potter of Bolton Gardens and became another person." She invested her royalties in farmland, flung all her energies into raising sheep. She invented a trap for catching maggot-flies, wrote knowledgeably to friends about housewifery and cooking ("Wm. prefers blue smoke before the bacon is laid on the frying pan"). As the years passed, her gentle, shy face assumed something of the granite features of Father Potter. She often wore big wooden-soled clogs, and skirts of hard, crude tweed, woven from the wool of her own sheep and fastened at the back with a safety-pin-creating such...