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Dates: during 1920-1929
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As thousands and thousands had safely done before, 14 people went up sightseeing in a trimotored Ford plane at the Newark, N, J., airport last week. Motor trouble developed. The pilot tried a forced landing near railroad tracks. He could not prevent his machine, which was traveling 70 m. p...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Smash | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Workmen were last week repairing the ventilating system of the Senate chamber when one of them, by accident, dropped a heavy piece of steel. It fell upon the flat, glass-paneled ceiling of the Senate and went crashing through to the floor. Dismayed, the workmen hurried to see which of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Omen? | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

"A little accident, Majestaet," quavered an unfortunate railway official, "we are iced in!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Iced In | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Cotter Pin. The cause of the accident was narrowed down to a cotter pin, which one of the mechanics at Valbuena Field had forgotten to replace after greasing the landing wheels that morning. The wheel, Col. Lindbergh said, fell off after a stop for luncheon.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Mishap | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend and George Bernard Shaw, 42, were married in 1898. She had just nursed him back to health after a severe accident. She is gracious, completely self-effacing, smart, Irish. Her principal achievement has been to translate most of the plays of Eugene Brieux-previously considered an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mrs. Shaw | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

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