Easy to get to, and becoming more popular every year, it is only fourteen hours from New York by Pan American World Airways jet, four hours from Rome.

* 1987 – The American male basket ball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis.

This is a tour of American music — jump blues, slow blues, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley ballads, Country Swing — that evokes the sprawl, fatalism and subversive humor of Dylan's sacred text, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, the pre-rock voicings of Hank Williams, Charley Patton and Johnnie Ray, among others, and the ultradry humor of Groucho Marx.

* Carin Cone ( born 1940 ), an American swimmer, Olympic medalist, world record holder, and gold medal winner from the Pan American Games

The main highland cities in the country's Central Valley are connected by paved all-weather roads with the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and by the Pan American Highway with Nicaragua and Panama, the neighboring countries to the North and the South.

He is on the board of the TransAfrica Forum a Pan African organization that works for the right of Africa, Caribbean and Latin American issues.

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* Pan American World Airways

They were also used for the Special Olympics Shanghai, Pan American and Central African Games relays.

* 1951 – The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Although service to Japan ceased in summer 2003, it can still be seen on Americable ( distributor for American bases ), Mediatti ( Kadena Air Base ) and Pan Global TV Japan.

Daniele Hypólito on the Balance Beam at the 2007 Pan American Games

One of the early successes of hydroponics occurred on Wake Island, a rocky atoll in the Pacific Ocean used as a refuelling stop for Pan American Airlines.

H. Greenwood, U. S. Delegate and Harold B. Butler, Secretary-General, with secretarial staff of the first International Labour Conference in Washington, D. C., October – November 1919, in front of the Pan American Building </ center >

The first annual conference ( referred to as the International Labour Conference, or ILC ) began on 29 October 1919 at the Pan American Union ( building ) in Washington, D. C. and adopted the first six International Labour Conventions, which dealt with hours of work in industry, unemployment, maternity protection, night work for women, minimum age and night work for young persons in industry.

* 1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first " jumbo jet ", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.

* 1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.

The lagoon was used in 1937 and 1938 as a halfway station between Hawai ' i and American Samoa by Pan American Airways flying boats ( Sikorsky S-42B ).

They crossed into Portugal and subsequently traveled to the United States in two groups: on the USS Trenton from Lisbon to Baltimore in July 1940, and on the Pan American airliner Yankee Clipper in October 1940.

Category: Basketball players at the 1983 Pan American Games

Pan Am wanted to expand flights into the Pacific and include Australia and New Zealand to their " Clipper " air routes.

In 1939, DiMaggio was nicknamed the " Yankee Clipper " by Yankee's stadium announcer Arch McDonald, when he likened DiMaggio's speed and range in the outfield to the then-new Pan American airliner.

On August 11, 1982, while operating under the registry N754PA for its original owner Pan Am and nicknamed " Clipper Ocean Rover ," it was assigned to fly from Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu International Airport in Honolulu, Hawaii as Flight 830.

A military contractor, Mr. McClosky, bids farewell to his Hawaiian hosts as he boards the Pan American Clipper, also bound for Wake Island.

The Pan American Clipper is not damaged and is cleared to fly.

1941 advertising mailer for Pan Am's " Flying Clipper Cruises " to South America

Carrying the nicknames American Clipper, Southern Clipper, and Caribbean Clipper, they were the first of the series of 28 Clippers that came to symbolize Pan Am between 1931 and 1946.

On July 9, 1982 Clipper Defiance, a Boeing 727 – 235 ( N4737 ), operating as Pan Am flight 759, crashed minutes after takeoff from New Orleans Airport in the worst accident in aviation history involving microburst-induced wind shear.

On September 5, 1986 a Pan Am 747 named the Clipper Empress of the Seas ( N656PA ), operating as Pan Am flight 73, was taken over by hijackers while on a scheduled stop in Karachi.

** Boston-Maine Airways, sister company to this airline, which operated service under the Pan Am Clipper Connection brand

Noonan had recently left Pan Am, where he established most of the company's China Clipper seaplane routes across the Pacific.

Before its dissolution, Boston-Maine Airways ( Pan Am Clipper Connection ), a regional airline, was headquartered in Portsmouth.

* Pan Am L-1011-500 Clipper Aircraft Names by FAA Registry Number

On October 19, 1939, Chennault boarded Pan American Airways " California Clipper " ( Boeing B-314 ; NC18602 ) at the Pan American Airways terminal in Hong Kong.

Together, they departed on Tuesday, October 15, 1940, from Chungking ( Chongqing ), China, arriving at the Port of Hong Kong where they boarded American Clipper ( Boeing B-314, Pan American Airlines No. NC 18606, Captain J.

He departed Hong Kong on June 19, 1940 aboard Pan American Airways Honolulu Clipper ; departed Manila, Philippines, on June 21 ; arrived at Treasure Island, San Francisco, California, on June 25 ; departed from Naval Auxiliary Air Facility Mills Field, Oakland, California, at 7: 00 pm, June 25 aboard a United Airlines DC-3 ; arriving at Washington National Airport, June 26.

The Martin Company also produced the noted China Clipper flying boats used by Pan American Airways for its transpacific San Francisco to the Philippines route.

With a Song in My Heart is a 1952 biographical film which tells the story of actress and singer Jane Froman, who was crippled by an airplane crash on February 22, 1943, when the Boeing 314 Pan American Clipper flying boat she was on suffered a crash landing in the Tagus River near Lisbon, Portugal.

Pan Am became the first airline to cross the Pacific Ocean with the famous Clipper flying boats.

Once seriously questioned, the intermediates did not wait for the next Pan African Congress two years hence, but were officially rejected in 1965 ( again on an advisory basis ) by Burg Wartenstein Conference # 29, Systematic Investigation of the African Later Tertiary and Quarternary, a prestigious conference in anthropology held by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, at Burg Wartenstein Castle, which it then owned in Austria, attended by the same key scholars that attended the Pan African Congress, including Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, who was delivering a pilot presentation of her typological analysis of Early Stone Age tools, to be included in her 1971 contribution to Olduvai Gorge, " Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963.

* Robert Sherman Halperin ( 1928 – 1985 ), yachting Olympic and Pan American Games medalist, football player, World War II hero, and chairman of Commercial Light Co.

After the end of World War II, Captain Frank C. Martin, a white Pan American pilot, purchased farm land adjacent to the base in rural southwest Dade County.

At the Dallam County Courthouse, Dalhart honors the memory of James R. Fox, Jr. ( March 16, 1919 — March 11, 1943 ), who flew supplies to China for Pan American Airways, then a joint Chinese and American company, during World War II through the treacherous Hump Route.

Pan Am continued to expand worldwide throughout World War II, being one of the few airlines that was largely unaffected by the war.

Maxfield Parrish's third son, Stephen Parrish II, worked for Pan American as a mechanic.

Romeo and Juliet was followed by L ' Aiglon in 1900, a French play about the life of Napoleon II of France in which Adams played the leading role, foreshadowing her portrayal of another male ( Peter Pan ) five years later.

* The U. S. Navy and Pan American World Airways sign a contract under which the Naval Air Transportation Service takes control of Pan Americans Martin M-130 and Boeing 314 flying boats for Navy use in service between California and the Territory of Hawaii for the duration of World War II.

* November 3 – The Pan American World Airways Boeing 314 flying boat Honolulu Clipper, operating on an Operation Magic Carpet flight carrying 26 American servicemen home to the United States after World War II, makes a forced landing in the Pacific Ocean 650 miles east of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands without injury to passengers or crew, all of whom are rescued by a tanker the following morning.

* November 16 – Pan American World Airways resumes commercial seaplane service between California and Hawaii, using Boeing Clipper aircraft it has leased to the U. S. Navy during World War II.

* Listen to Pan Sonic's " Mayhem II " at Acousmata music blog

Prior to World War II, principal shareholder and Austrian industrialist Peter Paul Von Bauer secretly sold his shares to the Pan American World Airways in an attempt to protect the airline from acquisition by the Nazi government.

After World War II long runways were available, and American, Canadian and European carriers such as Pan Am, TWA, Trans Canada Airlines ( TCA ), BOAC, and Air France acquired larger piston aircraft, which allowed flights over the North Atlantic with intermediate stops ( usually in Gander, Newfoundland and / or Shannon, Ireland ).

Night Over Water is a fictionalized account of the final flight of the Pan American Clipper passenger airplane during the first few days of World War II, early September, 1939.

The bourbon is the drink of choice for adult male leads in Rambo: First Blood Part II and The Cassandra Crossing ( which are both directed by George Pan Cosmatos ), Rush, In the Heat of the Night ( film ), Silver Bullet, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Bad Lieutenant, The Eiger Sanction, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Punisher, Where the Buffalo Roam, and The Guardian.

He is most strongly associated with the Phase II Pan Groove Steel Orchestra, a band he has taken to several finals of the Steelband competition Panorama, as well as winning the 1st place in 1987 and 1988.

But it was when Boogsie, member / arranger of Phase II Pan Groove, switched from Terror ’ s Pan Talent to Kitchener ’ s Sweet Pan that the capacity audience roared its acclaim of the versatility.

After the technological advances of World War II and the construction of suitable airports in South America made seaplanes largely obsolete, Pan Am transferred its operations back to Miami International Airport that had opened to flights in 1928 as Pan American Field.

The Naked Goddess has its background in South America, where I lived five years during World War II while working for Pan American-Grace Airlines ( Panagra ).