Word: pans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Victoria Plaza hotel opened for business in Montevideo this week. Designed for American tourists and businessmen, North or South, the 22-story, 400-room hotel is the fifth link in a $50 million Latin American hotel chain being put together by the Intercontinental Hotels Corp., a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways...
...sort the greyish-blue lumps for milling, are Huanuni's strings of company-built miners' homes. Over a cow-dung fire, Sabino Perez' wife cooks the evening meal of potatoes; because of the low boiling point at 12,800 feet they come out of the pan almost as raw and hard as they went in. Blue-cheeked children huddle inside the windowless, dirt-floored, one-room hut to escape the biting mountain wind. Within are a bed, two chairs, and a four-inch figure of the Infant Jesus on a homemade altar; magazine pictures of bathing beauties...
...throttles wide open, the Star of the East, a DC-4 of Pan American World Airways' Cuban affiliate Aviacion Cubana, roared northeastward out of Bermuda's Kindley Field before dawn one day last week. Just after the takeoff, one of the four engines of the Madrid-to-Havana plane faltered. "I was just going to run to the front of the cabin and warn the passengers when we hit the water," Steward Orlando Lopez Suarez later recalled. "The tail broke off ... I found a rubber dinghy, but it was punctured and would not inflate . . . then the plane sank...
...company had an order for 100 Thunderjets, its first jet fighter, but it was losing money on the Seabee (TIME, Sept. 17, 1945), a small private amphibian, and was $7,000,000 in the red. To make matters worse, American Airlines and Pan American Airways canceled orders for the four-engine Rainbow transport, the only transport orders Republic had. Then Peale took his first gamble; he decided to junk the Seabee program, stop trying for civilian orders, and stake Republic's future on Government contracts...
...T.W.A. and Pan Am now schedule nonstop flights to Europe, but planes frequently have to make refueling stops...