Word: pans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SHOW would such its climate with the special guest appearance of the FBI's anonymous hate-letter department, a division that just doesn't seem to make it into prime time. The camera would pan across an office, and focus in an William C. Sullivan, hand of civil rights investigations for the FBI, busily penning a latter. The camera then peers ever his shoulder at the words as he writes them...
...America's wealthiest and most distinguished families. Whitney used his entrepreneurial skills in a grand array of profitable ventures. In the 1930s he astutely backed Gone With the Wind and the long-running Broadway hit Life with Father. He also made early investments in Minute Maid orange juice, Pan American World Airways and several radio and TV stations. A moderate Republican, he was named Ambassador to the Court of St. James's by President Eisenhower in 1956, and while still a diplomat, he purchased the ailing New York Herald Tribune, which he was unable to save, though...
Long-troubled Pan American World Airways last year was the industry's leader in losses. During 1981, it flew about $360 million in the red. To raise money, Pan Am two years ago sold its headquarters building in New York City and made $294 million. Last year it sold its profitable chain of Intercontinental Hotels for $500 million. To sharpen a sagging management, Pan Am's board of directors encouraged William Seawell to retire last year and named C. Edward Acker, then the boss of Air Florida, as new chairman...
Acker still hopes to pull Pan Am out of its tailspin. The airline may begin subleasing its office space in the Pan Am Building and is considering moving its headquarters to Miami or some other city, where costs are lower. It may also chop more employees from its payroll; it has already let go 4,000, leaving 30,000, and cut salaries 10% across the board. Finally, Pan Am is trying to sell two of its Boeing 747 jumbo jets, although finding buyers is tough. Insists Acker: "We have over $200 million in cash. We are a long, long...
George Gershwin was the archetypal American composer: a Tin Pan Alley tunesmith with high artistic aspirations. The man who set the country humming Oh, Lady, Be Good and Someone to Watch Over Me also wrote more formally complex, jazz-tinged "crossover" works like Rhapsody in Blue, three Preludes for piano, and most ambitious of all, the Concerto in F for piano and orchestra...