Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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If a man were to fly 10,000 miles annually in regularly scheduled U. S. transport planes, he might suffer a crackup in the 39th year; might be killed in the 282nd. Were the same man to cover the same distance in random flights (instruction, sightseeing, joyhopping, et al.) he...
All civil aircraft flew 68,669,928 mi. in the six months, a gain of 12,468,590 mi. over the same period in 1929. There were 930 accidents, one for every 73,839 mi. of flight. In 1929 (spring) there was an accident every 72,612 mi. Schedule transport...
Reno (Sono Art-World Wide Pictures Inc.). A novel by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. which was partly a lecture on Reno in travelog manner and partly a triangle lovestory is used here as the basis for the first picture Ruth Roland has made in years. She is the wife of a...
The system commonly used today of flashing electric lights as a danger warning is not wholly successful. Busy miners often fail to notice the signals at once. Often an electric system will be disrupted by the very accident that occasions its use. The odor method is cheap, sure. Even the...
His opening statement is that "the nature of the outcome, whether in the end a rate higher or lower than the corresponding one of 1922, depended on compromise, 'trading,' accident, and not infrequently on the persistence or dominance of some individual." He shows that the farmers themselves looked for little...