Word: pans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the Civil Aeronautics Board's preliminary decision to knock two Alaskan airlines out of their lucrative Stateside business. CAB has decided not to renew temporary permits for routes flown by Pacific Northern and Alaska Airlines between Alaska and the Pacific Northwest (43,013 passengers in 1953), letting Pan American and Northwest Airlines fly the routes alone. But the move has brought such a howl that CAB may be forced to reconsider...
...Washington dinner on the 51st anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight, Pan American World Airways President Juan Trippe last week called for a national act of bold pioneering that might be as fruitful as Kitty Hawk...
...South, Fun and Fancy Free and Melody Time-looked like mashed potatoes all right, but they didn't bring in much gravy. Disney's next big picture, however, made plenty: Cinderella may eventually outgross Snow White. And though Alice in Wonderland was a flop, Peter Pan was another smash hit. which exchanged Barrie sentiment for Hollywood slapstick and almost made the crocodile the hero...
POWER-POLICY CHANGE by the Administration will be reflected in the new budget now being prepared. For the first time it will ask for a sizable chunk of money to finance new water projects. Among them: an irrigation plan for the upper Colorado River, and the Frying Pan-Arkansas project to bring water by tunnel from the Colorado River under the continental divide...
...brief history, Mexico's border-to-border Pan-American road race, world's longest (1,908 miles) and most punishing, has more than earned its reputation as a mankiller: in its first four years, it took the lives of 17 drivers and spectators. Before this year's opening gun was fired, two Argentine competitors were killed in pre-race tests. Before the contestants roared across the flat homestretch to Juarez last week, so many cars had missed turns, somersaulted off the road and plowed through packs of spectators, that more than a score were injured and seven...