Word: pans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steaming jungles of southern Mexico, over mountains and past frowning volcanoes, across the sunbaked plains of the north to the banks of the Rio Grande, stretches the longest, most punishing car-racing course in the world. On these twisting, plunging 1,912 miles of macadam and concrete, the fourth Pan-American road race began last week. One of the greatest international meets ever held, it had 177 starters from ten countries and was actually four races in one-big and small sports cars, big and small stock cars. At stake was a total $101,271 in prize money...
Died. Alfreda Theodore Strandberg Morse, 63, Tin Pan Alley lyricist who collaborated with her composer-husband, the late Theodore Morse, produced some of the nation's alltime popular favorites (Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here; Siboney); in White Plains...
...Friends, How To Be Happy Though Drafted, etc.) the film is singularly uninstructive. Leggy Lauren Bacall is the only prospector of a mercenary trio to strike matrimonial pay-dirt. Less fortunate, Misses Monroe and Betty Grable trade loot for love and their gold rush fails to pan...
...nevertheless proved himself an impressively facile designer, and eventually United Aircraft & Transport Corp. assimilated his Sikorsky Aviation Corp. By 1937 he had made his mark all over again. The Sikorsky amphibian was a famous plane, and Sikorsky's four-engine Clippers were blazing Pan American's transoceanic routes on both the Atlantic and the Pacific. Sikorsky did not rest on his laurels. He rose at a meeting of United's operating committee, bowed and calmly announced that the time had come to perfect the helicopter...
...save his pursuer undue trouble, Kimathi politely replied (in a letter to a local newspaper in Nairobi): "I shall be away from Kenya in November and December visiting Uganda, the Sudan and Egypt. After that, I attend a Pan-African conference in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia. (Signed) Kimathi, Marshal and Commander-in-Chief. Defense Council, Land Freedom Army...