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Word: baffler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months. (It was Eastern's second in eleven years of crack operation.) In that time death on airliners had taken 54 men & women. To Atlanta hurried CAB's crash experts to try to figure out what had happened. To start with, at least, they had a baffler. Trip 21 had gone down while on the beam, headed just where she should have headed. Experienced Pilot Perry apparently had started the same maneuver that brought in two other airliners safely that night under the same conditions. But somehow he had run out of altitude. Whether it was because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Ceiling 300 | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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