Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making a research report on Fascism, Naziism, Socialism, Communism, the Atlantic Charter, Lend Lease, League of Nations, Moscow Conference, UNRRA, International Monetary Fund, Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Dumbarton Oaks Conference and proposals, Pan American Union, Good Neighbor Policy, San Francisco Conference, the United Nations Organization and charter. . . . 7 would appreciate it if you would send me any information you have on these subjects...
...annual meeting of Pan American Airways stockholders. Up rose Juan Terry Trippe. Pan Am had done well in the first five months of this year, said he cheerfully. It had grossed $27,500,000 against last year's $17,000,000. But in the future, said Juan Trippe smoothly, Pan Am would not have the services of two top officials: Thomas Alfred Morgan, board chairman of Sperry Corp. and former head of Pan Am's executive committee, and Samuel Sloan Colt, president of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. They had declined to stand for re-election...
Despite the confusion and inconvenience, most laymen heartily approved CAA's action. Reason: the "Star of Lisbon" was the third Constellation to catch fire and crash-land in the last ten months. The first, an Army plane manned by a Pan American crew, went down near Linn, Kans. in September. The second was a commercial Pan American ship (carrying members of London's Old Vic company back to Britain), which dropped an engine and squeaked into Willimantic, Conn, last month...
Transpacific air routes, once Pan American Airways' private pie, were sliced up last week. The Civil Aeronautics Board, over Pan American's objections, handed a luscious slice to United Air Lines, which during the war flew some 5,000 flights between the U.S. and Hawaii for the Army. United got a San Francisco to Honolulu route paralleling Pan Am's. CAB picked United from the six applicants for the route because a majority of the travelers to Hawaii come from U.S. cities served by United. Thus United will be able to offer them single-carrier service...
...Toronto, Olive Kehoe was charged with theft. Evidence: a frying pan in the seat of her underwear...