Word: pans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, the 1952 Harmon International Aviation Awards were announced. Aviatrix: Jacqueline Auriol, daughter-in-law of the President of France, for setting the women's speed record-509 m.p.h.-in a jet fighter. Aviator: Pan American World Airways Captain Charles F. Blair Jr., the first man to fly a single-engine fighter plane nonstop across the North Pole. Aeronaut: Lieut. Carl J. Seiberlich, U.S.N., for developing new techniques in the use of low-flying airships...
There is plenty of business for nonscheduled U.S. freight airlines on the transatlantic run. Trans World Airlines and Pan American are the only scheduled U.S. carriers making freight flights over the route, and most of their cargo takes second place to passengers. Last week, pressed by the urgent shipments of U.S. aid abroad, the CAB handed a big slice of the business to a younger airline. Its name: Seaboard & Western Airlines, Inc., which has flown some 2,700 flights across the Atlantic and Pacific since 1947 as a nonscheduled carrier...
...moral as well as financial. It came as a direct recommendation from President Truman, who is interested in building up transoceanic cargo carriers for use in case of war. To this influential voice, Seaboard itself added some strong arguments. CAB's own figures, said Seaboard, showed that Pan American and T.W.A. together had flown only nine scheduled all-cargo flights last year while foreign airlines took the big share of the U.S. air cargo business with 339 flights. Furthermore, the U.S. lines' share of the cargo business dropped from 43% to 36% in the last year. Seaboard thought...
...recruit, train and oversee EDF, there would be a Council of Ministers, a nine-man Commissariat, a Court of Justice and an Assembly. The Syman assembly embodied the highest hopes of Pan-European dreams: it would evolve, said the treaty, into a responsible European congress with jurisdiction over the Schuman Plan, EDC and, if all went well, a United States of Europe...
When Pillsbury Mills, Inc., second biggest U.S. flour-milling company, began putting its quick mixes for pies and cakes ("just add water") on the market in 1945, sales rose like popovers in a pan. The mix business, both for the home and for bakers, grew so fast that in 1949 Pillsbury opened a new plant. Last week Pillsbury's rewarded Paul S. Gerot, 49, the crack salesman who had put over the quick mixes. It made him president. Gerot, who came to Pillsbury fresh out of Northwestern University and swiftly climbed the ladder as a salesman, succeeds Philip Pillsbury...