Word: accidentally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sooner or later it was inevitable that, as autogiros came into common use, there should be crackups. Some day, no doubt, one of those accidents will cause death. The safety features which insure the 'giro against tumbling plummet-like from the sky are not supposed to be proof against every...
Mrs. Putnam was scrupulous in her praise of the autogiro for the slightness of the accident. But she could not prevent the headlines which varied from MISS EARHART AVOIDS SERIOUS AUTOGIRO CRASH, through AMELIA EARHART'S AUTOGIRO CRASHES to EARHART AUTOGIRO SPINS TO EARTH IN TEXAS CYCLONE.
Died, George D. McLaughlin, 67, Chicago clubman, merchant (Manor House coffee), brother of Sportsman Frederic McLaughlin; as the result of an automobile accident near Lake Forest, Ill.
A Swiss headwaiter in a Birmingham hotel. He shared a first prize in the Calcutta Sweeps ($500,000) with one of the customers, who was found in a hospital where he had been taken after an automobile accident.
Died. Daniel Nash Morgan, 86, retired banker. Treasurer of the U. S. in President Cleveland's second Administration (1893-97), twice Mayor of Bridgeport, Conn., sometime member of the Senate and House of Representatives of Connecticut, president of two Bridgeport banks; after an automobile accident; in Bridgeport.