Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salt Lake City, Negro track stars set two new world's records: Illinois' Herb McKenley ran the quarter-mile in :46.2, and Baldwin-Wallace's Harrison Dillard, the 220-yard low hurdles in :22.3. Each was two-tenths of a second better than the old record...
...lightning flared from cloud to cloud as United Airlines Cleveland-bound Flight 521, 44 passengers, four crew, trundled away from the LaGuardia Field ramp on the eve of Memorial Day. As he taxied out to the far side of the field, 38-year-old Captain Benton R. ("Lucky") Baldwin was cleared for takeoff. The control tower gave him his choice of two runways-No. 13 or No. 18.* He picked the shortest, No. 18; it was only 3,533 feet long but it pointed directly into the brisk, 18 m.p.h. south wind...
...dusk when he finished his last check of controls and engines. He taxied out to the head of No. 18. The line-squall was moving closer to the field. Baldwin could look into its black heart as he turned his four-engined craft into the wind. The tower gave the go-ahead. Baldwin shoved his throttles open. The big ship began to roll, accelerated, began eating up footage on the blurring runway. It flashed 500, 1,000, 1,500 feet, it got up to a speed of 100 m.p.h. Still it did not get off the ground. Warned of danger...
...Baldwin chopped his throttles, shoved down on his brakes. But he had only 1,000 feet of pavement left and the 60,319-lb. plane kept going. He tried desperately to groundloop to the left. Instead, it would not turn. The plane plunged straight on, tires screeching, tore down 100 feet of fence at the end of the field, lifted a little and skimmed the earth like a skipped stone...
Hero with an Ax. Bleeding and burned, Baldwin managed to open the cockpit escape hatch, dropped to the ground, staggered dazedly away. Rain began streaming down as the flames soared up in 50-ft. tongues. Baldwin started back-there were 47 people inside-and was held back by the gathering crowd. Firemen drove a fire engine through a wooden fence, attacked the fire. Then the hero of the crash-a 38-year-old New Yorker named Edward McGrath-arrived. He grabbed an ax, waded into the furnace heat, chopped a hole in the broken plane's duraluminum skin...