Word: panning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the war Lindbergh, while still remaining a high-level consultant to Pan American World Airways, became an early, ardent and passionate conservationist, traveling around the world in the cause of the environment. In his last years his favorite spot was a simple, five-acre retreat on the Hawaiian island of Maui...
...mortgage loans in California-has forced many families to postpone indefinitely their dreams of buying a new or bigger house. Though corporate profits on the whole are still rising smartly, interest costs and inflated operating expenses are driving a growing number of businesses to the wall. Pan American World Airways (1973 revenues: $1.4 billion), plagued by an inflation-induced drop in travel and a rocketing rise in jet-fuel costs, may be unable to pay its bills unless it gets a Government subsidy of $10 million a month. Nationwide, more than 5,000 businesses failed in the first half...
...ripe for use now. The recipe, which is meant solely for printed matter, not handwritten letters, reads like a home remedy for a Watergate-induced headache: dissolve a milk of magnesia tablet in a quart of club soda and chill the solution overnight. Then pour it into a pan or tray large enough to accommodate a flattened newspaper, soak the newspaper for an hour...
...some California savings and loans raised rates on mortgage loans as high as 10%. The stock market recorded one new four-year low after another; the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 45 points to close at 687, down 99 in the first 15 days of the Ford presidency. Pan American World Airways did investors' nerves no good by asking the Civil Aeronautics Board for an immediate subsidy of $10 million a month, retroactive to April, and warning that otherwise it would be "faced with a threat to its very survival...
...this laconic look at class conflict in the rural South includes Marlon Brando--playing the archetypal Southern sheriff--and young versions of Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. It's playing with G-Men, a film in which Jimmy Cagney switches from hood to FBI agent. Well, out of the pan and into the fire...