Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No Accident. Colonial Airlines, whose slogan is "Safety is no accident," last week completed its 19th year without a serious accident, the longest accident-free period for any U.S. airline. Colonial has flown 250,545,622 passenger miles without death or serious injury to any passenger or crew member.
Several skiers saw the accident on Mr. Washington and identified the victim as Schiller. They gave an alarm, and a crew of volunteer rescue workers was organized, only to be forced back by melting snow. Police believe the man is dead, because he struck several rocks in his fall.
One old face missing was Ben Hogan's, and that wasn't Ben's fault. He won $3,823 in four tournaments before his near-fatal auto accident in February, and is still seventh on this year's list of money winners. As in big league...
When an airliner crashes, the airlines and manufacturers scramble to find out what happened and why, but they seldom accuse each other in public of laxity. They prefer to sweep the accident under the rug and out of sight. Last week Croil Hunter, boss of Northwest Airlines, took another course...
"It's a highly technical job," team doctors said yesterday, "and Mr. Busch can be thankful that the accident happened in a place like Boston, where there are men capable of handling operations of that type." Busch returns to Cambridge today, and his father, a doctor, has notified him that...