Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dull-eyed and incoherent widow and their four children, they huddled in a 15-by-30-ft. tent, which they shared with three others in a Pusan slum. Cardboard stuffed along the sides blocked out some of the cold, but in the middle of the room a pan of water froze quite hard. At week's end nobody from the Army had called on the family; a spokesman explained that "no administrative procedures have been drawn" to handle this sort of thing...
...vogue of hillbilly and "country" tunes may have something to do with Marais' new popularity with the jukebox trade. But his songs have engaging, Calypso-style rhythms of their own, and turns of phrase in the lyrics (e.g., "How lovely cooks the meat") that never came from Tin Pan Alley...
...learned to fly, formed a company of his own, along with Harold Harris, now president of Northwest Airlines, and took crop-dusting teams as far as South America. He landed an airmail contract and passenger route to Peru and Ecuador in 1928, later sold it to Pan American-Grace Airways. In 1929 he helped form Delta and started flying passengers from Dallas to Jackson, Miss. and other Southern cities. He has been rapidly expanding his routes ever since. In the last five years. Delta's net has jumped from $200,000 to $1,650,000. The deal with Chicago...
...another Waldorf or Copacabana Palace. With Statler-style "one-room suites" costing $7.50 a day and up, the new hotel is designed for the middle-income traveler who, I.H.C. officials think, will be their biggest customer in future. As such, it is only the newest unit in Pan Am's long-range plan for increasing tourist traffic from the U.S. by supplying better hotels for travelers. I.H.C. already manages hotels in Belem, Santiago and Barranquilla, owns and operates Mexico City's Reforma and will take over Bermuda's Princess Hotel on lease...
...globe-girdling as Pan American itself, I.H.C. has also signed contracts for hotels in such other widely separated spots as Tokyo and Saudi Arabia. Though it had to start in the red, ambitious I.H.C. looks ahead a few years to a $100 million-a-year hotel business-a healthy sideline for a $188 million-a-year airline...