Word: accidental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Naval Ministry scoffed at suggestions that the loss of the Phenix was something more than an accident. French newspapers were not prepared to dismiss the possibility of sabotage so lightly, asked: "Can this be the law of averages-that three democracies lose three submarines in less than a month...
Latest of such stories is The Wings of the Morning, a 500-page fantasy by a 28-year-old Englishman who works for a London printing firm, flies a plane, likes good food and wine, fast horses and cars. His first published novel, The Wings of the Morning, tells of...
Besides its locomotive works, Baldwin has Standard Steel Works (railroad wheels and a wide assortment of industrial miscellany) and Baldwin-Southwark (capital goods from engines to nuts). In spite of all these, Baldwin would still be in deep Depression but for the accident of geography that established Baldwin on tidewater...
Men in a Bell. Not since 1921, when the E-6 went down at its moorings with a torpedo tube open, had the Navy had a submarine accident caused by mechanical failure or fault of the crew. Aboard a man-of-war floating above the 8-4 when she sank...
Last week a spectacular and unprecedented accident happened to the University of California's famed Lick Observatory, first of the big mountain-top star-stations, perched on triple-peaked, 4,209-ft. Mt. Hamilton. An army attack plane, flying on instruments through fog, hit the main observatory building like...