Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Socialist hootenanny in the St. Pan-eras town hall, Statesman Gaitskell cavorted like a regular chap, hurled himself with abandon into a rock 'n' roll session...
When the $120 million Terminal City at New York's Idlewild Airport is completed in 1960, none of its structures will be as startling as the saucerlike oval sheltering Pan American World Airways' passengers and planes. In plans for Pan Am's $8.000,000 jet-age terminal, announced last week, the chief feature is a four-acre cantilever roof of prestressed concrete that extends 110 ft. over the aircraft parking apron. Protected by the overhanging roof, travelers will board their planes directly from second-floor waiting rooms along level gangplanks 10 ft. above the ground. Incoming passengers...
...door for much more foreign competition for U.S. airlines. The State Department got in return rights for U.S. carriers to fly from any point in the U.S. to Amsterdam and beyond (the U.S. now flies from Amsterdam only to Frankfurt) and into and beyond Surinam and The Netherlands Antilles (Pan American already flies to the Antilles). But U.S. carriers belittle such concessions, point out that air traffic between the U.S. and the Antilles is light, and that Amsterdam offers little opportunity for extra European traffic...
...died in 1953) gathered KLM personnel from all over the world, led "the Flying Dutchman" in a remarkable comeback. Today KLM's 160,000 miles of routes to 124 cities in 74 countries rank it as the world's third airline in international passenger traffic (after Pan American and British Overseas Airways Corp.), the second in international cargo...
...SUBSIDY will soon be ended for Pan American World Airways. Because Pan Am is earning at least 7% return on mail pay and passenger revenues (commercial traffic rose by 25% in 1956), CAB will cut fiscal 1957 subsidy to $2,500,000 from planned $7,663,000, eliminate expected 1958 grant...