Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ruthenian persecution was important in itself, and also as an example of Stalin's use of the Orthodox Church to further Communism's Pan-Slavic program in southeastern Europe. But the Pope's encyclical highlighted an even more important global aspect of the Stalin-Alexei alliance, which had recently reached imperiously into the U.S. Last month the Russian Orthodox hierarchy of the U.S. and Canada, who cut loose from Moscow in 1917, met in Chicago. They heard the Patriarch Alexei's delegate demand submission to Moscow. In pious language, they told him to peddle his Moscovite...
Lumbering Pan American Airways clippers make the New York-to-Lisbon run in 24 flying hours with stops at Bermuda and the Azores. This week one of Pan Am's sleek new Constellations made the New York to Lisbon flight nonstop on a survey hop. Time: 9 hours, 58 minutes. Speed: 344 miles an hour...
Next month, Pan Am will start flying DC-45 regularly to Lisbon by way of Ireland. Time: 19 hours, 15 minutes; one way fare: $295. Later Pan Am will switch to Constellations, and when it can get land-plane rights in the Azores flights will be routed that way, flying-time and fares...
Died. Harry von Tilzer (real name: Harry Gumm), 73, dear old daddy of Tin Pan Alley (which he named), writer of such dear old songs as I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl, A Bird in a Gilded Cage, In the Evening by the Moonlight, Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie, first to publish Irving Berlin and George Gershwin; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Burbank, Calif, one day last week, a big shark-bodied plane rose from the Lockheed Air Terminal, circled out across the San Fernando Valley and headed east over the mountains. It was a notable event and a red-letter day for Pan American Airways: that was the first of the fleet of Lockheed Constellations for Pan Am's globe-girdling routes...