Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s, Sinclair went to jail for six months for contempt of court and the Senate. Doheny was acquitted of charges to defraud the Government and sold control of his Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co. holdings to Standard of Indiana. The ironic aftermath: instead of producing 130 million bbl. as the U.S. had predicted, Teapot Dome depleted itself after...
...cargo business, which under established Government policy should go to commercial carriers. The airlines worry that jet passenger transports will be but the first step in converting MATS' $1.2 billion fleet of aircraft into a $3 billion jet operation that will take away even more commercial business. Pan American World Airways is postponing its decision to buy new cargo jets until it finds out whether it must compete against a MATS jet fleet...
...bright U.S. high school graduates these days, scholarships pop up like gold nuggets in a lucky miner's pan. Last week from its headquarters in Evanston, Ill., the National Merit Scholarship Corp. announced the names of 850 winners-a record crop in the biggest, fastest growing privately supported scholarship program in U.S. history...
Alarmed. In London, one reason why the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation refused Pan American World Airways permission to schedule 1:30 a.m. jet take-offs was that citizens of Longford -a town in direct line with London Airport's No. 1 runway-had threatened to make regular 1 :30 a.m. phone calls to the Minister of Transport, airport executives and others, saying: "Good morning, did I wake...
...CARGO PLANES will soon be ordered by Pan American World Airways, which plans to begin service by early 1960s. Cargo jets could handle five-times-greater loads annually than present cargo aircraft, may cut cargo rates in half, says Pan Am President Juan Trippe...