Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then from faraway Boston came a body blow. Nelson Rockefeller, the conciliatory U.S. Assistant Secretary of State in charge of Latin American affairs, stood up at a Pan-American dinner and denounced Argentina as "the black sheep" of the hemi sphere family...
...TIME [July 23] you refer to the Pan American Highway as a "reckless" project which was "abandoned.". . . In truth, the Army turned the work over to the Public Roads Administration in the fall of 1943, and that agency is continuing where the Army left the project. It is hoped that the highway will be opened for travel in 1947 on a tourist basis...
Hughes, who divides his time and money between films, tool making, a brewery, flying and financing, owns about 45% of T.W.A. stock. Pan Am, with impish innocence, reminded the CAB of this. By nightfall, Washington remembered that Frye was best man when Elliott Roosevelt married Cinemactress Faye Emerson on the Grand Canyon rim last December. Hollywood instantly recalled that Elliott met Faye through Johnny Meyer, a talent scout and handy man for Hughes. All this occurred while Franklin Roosevelt was in the White House, and before the CAB had ruled on the T.W.A. applications...
...Pan American Airway Corp.'s protest to C.A.B. on transatlantic competition (see above) was not matched by its rough-&-tumble row with a competitor in Mexico. The competitor: Aerovias Braniff, S.A., affiliate of the U.S.'s Braniff Airways Inc. (TIME, April 16). The battleground: the route from Mexico City to Merida via Vera Cruz, where Braniff made its first flight on July...
...this route Braniff paralleled a service long operated by Pan Am's Mexican subsidiary, Compañia Mexicana de Aviacion, S.A., which protested loudly against the operating permit granted to Braniff by the Minister of Communications. When protests failed, C.M.A. resorted to deeds. The resulting intercompany battle that marked the first round-trip Braniff flight from Mexico City to Merida was in the best swashbuckling tradition of business below the border...