[RSwank]

Frank, I never thought of that. Certainly a possibility. They may even have had both concepts in mind and so it was a play on words with a double meaning. In fact, when you look at how they had it painted on the plane, "A-Merry-Can" (with the dashes), I think that suggests they meant it both ways. Then the newspaper article screws it up by calling the plane "The Merry Can".