Word: panning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pan Am, still lord of the South Pacific, will thus become the first airline to offer express service from the U.S. around the world* (probable price, around $2,000; time, four days or less). But even then it will have nothing exclusive. Reason: CAB also extended the North Atlantic route of Trans World Airline from Bombay to Shanghai. There T.W.A. will team up with Northwest to offer a joint one-ticket globe-girdling trip that is 2,000 miles shorter and more complete than Pan Am's. (Hustling to get the jump on their new rival, Northwest and T.W.A...
...Pan Am, CAB included some kind words which said that passengers' fear of the cold, ice and snow of the north Pacific route and the lure of Hawaii as a way-point in the mid-Pacific route may well give Pan Am the advantage. What it mentioned scarcely at all is that the Northwest Passage will cut the flying distance from New York to the Orient by 1,000 miles. Northwest also will do most of its flying overland, where reassuring emergency bases can be built...
Considering Pan Am's big edge in established Pacific facilities, the competitive race of U.S. airlines around the world would be a close one, with no handicaps...
...circuit will be incomplete because Pan Am has no trans-U.S. charter...
...Pan American World Airways got the biggest brass of all: Admiral of the Fleet William F. Halsey, who became Pan Am's vice president in charge of trans-Pacific service. To "Bull" Halsey, recently high-jinksing in South America, the Pacific is as familiar as the palm of his hand. He knows its logistics, its geopolitics, the length & breadth of its "unsinkable aircraft carriers." But mostly Pan Am will count on the publicity value of his name...