Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ding Dong Bell. Near Charles City, Iowa, the pussy that fell in the well kept 72-year-old would-be rescuer Mrs. Bert Dawley company until both were hauled out, damp but undamaged, 40 hours later...
Following the colors presentation, the president of the Alumni Association, Laird Bell '04, and the president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, Ralph Lowell '12, will mark the metamorphosis from undergraduate to alumnus...
Helicopters, often touted as the best hope of timid commuters, had a bad fortnight. Three of the windmill aircraft cracked up like any common airplane. A Bell helicopter broke up in the air and fell into Lake Union in Seattle, killing the pilot and a Civil Aeronautics Administration man. Two days later, Coast Guard Pilot David Gershowitz was showing off his Sikorsky HO51 before 250 high-school kids at Floyd Bennett Field, New York, when he swooped too low, pulled up too quickly. The tail rotor hit the ground and broke off. The helicopter belly-crashed in orange flames...
Near Providence, R.I., another Bell 47B came apart like its Seattle sister ship. It fell 300 feet in flames, killing an instructor and his student. The Bell Aircraft Corp. last week hastily wired all owners of its models 47/B and 47B-3 not to fly their helicopters until the accidents had been investigated...
Helicopter manufacturers were not too much disheartened by the accidents. President Larry Bell of Bell Aircraft pointed out that airplanes are 43 years old; helicopters are only nine. They are already useful for "specialized assignments such as crop dusting, mapping, rescue. . . ." Better design and accumulating experience, Bell believes, "will hasten the time of wide public...