Word: pans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations to Parker's Parker and Pan Am's Juan Trippe [TIME, Oct. 27]. Mr. Parker made the statement of the century concerning tariff elimination: "We'll take our chances on U.S. production and merchandising savvy any time against all comers . ." Protective tariffs today heighten the cost of living for the consumer. They cheat the producer of the advantage and necessity of meeting competition in foreign markets . . . Mr. Trippe's decision to keep abreast of the times by purchasing $6,300,000 worth of jet liners from Britain's De Havilland Co. . . . makes possible foreign...
...little Catskill Mountain village of Tannersville, N.Y., the theater's most famous Peter Pan marked her 80th birthday. Maude Adams, who was delighting Broadway 47 years ago as the little boy who didn't want to grow up, now lives in quiet seclusion, seldom seeing friends or neighbors, as she works on her memoirs...
...Cessna plane stood by to carry the pages to Idlewild Airport, where they were put aboard a flight scheduled to arrive in Paris early Thursday afternoon. Other page proofs were flown from Los Angeles to Honolulu and Tokyo, and from Idlewild to Miami, to be transferred to a chartered Pan American flight for Cuba. Stories were also cabled directly from the U.S. to Paris and Tokyo, as a safeguard against delays in air traffic. Buried in the mass of detail these arrangements involved, TIME Production Chief Bert Chapman confessed: "At a time like this, I carry my files...
Standing on the road near one end of San Salvador's Ilopango Airport one afternoon last week, Felix Lara, 24, an Indian laborer, watched a Pan American Airways Constellation taxi out for the take-off to Honduras. Just as the plane started to roll, Felix vaulted the airport fence, leaped up on the axle housing of the right main landing wheel, and flung his arms around the fat supporting strut...
From a competitive standpoint, Pan Am made the deal with De Havilland because it had little choice. Unlike any other U.S. line, Pan Am competes around the globe with British airways. As long as the British intend to put Comets on their routes, Pan Am has to have jets ready also, if only for prestige and to gain jet plane experience. There was no doubt that the British had won an important skirmish in the battle for commercial jet supremacy. The victory may also turn out to be the best thing that could have happened to American plane builders. They...