Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American, American Airlines Overseas, East ern, Mid-Continent, Northwest, Pan American, Pennsylvania Central, Transcontinental & Western, United...
Eggbeater Production.What McKelvy wanted to tap was a new luxury market. Said he: "I had the same problem that cigaret makers had selling to women." At night, McKelvy began mixing powder in a tin pan with an eggbeater, soon had enough to take around to stores. To Manhattan buyers, he brought cheap full-page ads in obscure trade journals, promised them they would appear in the slick magazines. The stores bit, but slowly at first. He lost $5,000 the first year. Then came the war, and the boom in shipments of gift packages to G.I.'s overseas...
Increased representation of Pan-American nations, which have been sending more and more students each year during the past decade, is also strongly reflected in these figures. Evidencing hemispheric solidarity, 137 Latin-Americans, representing every nation except Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Ecuador, are listed on University files...
...airmen who have seen Tom Hardin in action around the world, this looked as if the bitter struggle in Latin America between Pan American Airways and TACA had reached Armageddon. It also looked as if Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., which owns 30% of TACA stock, had decided that TACA's President Lowell Yerex needed help in winning the fight...
...when he was Ambassador to Colombia, he was alarmed by the presence of the German-operated airline Scadta so near the Panama Canal. Well aware that Pan American Airways controlled Scadta and could throw out the Germans, Braden turned the heat on Pan Am through Washington, got action, and demonstrated one of his favorite theses: that Naziism, wherever and however it infiltrated Latin America, had to be and could be eradicated...