Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jane Froman settled in the witness stand last week, her withered right leg was plainly visible to the jury and the tense, packed Manhattan courtroom. Songstress Froman was asking $2,500,000 for damages suffered in the tragic Pan American Yankee Clipper crash in Lisbon's Tagus River ten years ago, in which 24 were killed. She wept softly as she recalled the crash. "I saw flashes of lightning as the plane approached the airport . . . I remember the plane banking to the left . . . I came to in the water. I was under the water. I pushed myself...
...Clipper victim, who asked $1,000,000 for her own injuries and loss of income, and Jane's ex-husband Ross, who sued for $100,000, to cover her hospital bills and his own loss of her company. The three had lost an early round, in 1949, when Pan Am's lawyers invoked the Warsaw Convention, a 1929 international agreement which sets a ceiling of $8,291.67 damages in an international flight accident. Now the suits charge that Pan American Pilot R. O. D. Sullivan recklessly disregarded instructions from the Lisbon Airport. The Warsaw limitation does not apply...
...April 1952, Captain Burn was piloting another Pan Am plane, en route to New York from Puerto Rico, when it crashed into the sea, killing 52. He was charged with "questionable flying technique" by the Civil Aeronautics Board, left Pan Am two week...
...Peter Pan. Walt Disney's lighthearted feature-length cartoon adaptation of J. M. Barrie's fantasy (TIME...
...Peter Pan. Walt Disney's lighthearted Feature-length cartoon adaptation of J. M. Barrie's fantasy (TIME...