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...remains of Pilot Holbrook. Copilot Barron, Stewardess Huckeby & all four passengers. Airline officials deduced that Pilot Holbrook had turned westward to skirt a storm area. Squeezed down by the thick blanket of clouds above, the plane had torn an Soft. swath through the treetops, crashed to earth in a blaze of flame. One body, flung clear of the wreckage, was found with hands snapped off at the wrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: End of NC 12354 | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

...surrounding tinder-like constructions of sprawling Packingtown, the vast stockyards area on Chicago's Southwest Side. Almost daily fires are extinguished in Packingtown. But when the dreaded "all-out" 4-11 signal clanged through the city's firehouses, firemen knew that this was no ordinary stockyards blaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Chicago Fire | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...shown, on large screens, at next week's reopening of Chicago's Century of Progress. When the First Lady (on the screen) makes an imperative gesture, spotlights will be turned on a great fountain. When the President finishes speaking all the lights of the Fair will blaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

Taking many of his cues from his predecessors in the field Mr. Edmonds does not blaze any remarkably new trail, and sometimes seems content merely, to retrace the stops of Mark Twain and Bret Harte. A story such as the "Death of Red, Peril," a tale of racing caterpillars, would indeed be famous, had Mark Twain never written his "Jumping Frog...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

Deplore foxy Yahya as she might, Britain was worried. If Yemen falls, only Oman on the Persian Gulf will remain independent territory, and the fame of hard-riding Ibn Saud will blaze high in the Moslem world, not only in British-controlled Aden, Irak and Palestine, but also in the Sudan across the Red Sea. Refueling at Aden, the cruiser Enterprise, one of the fastest in the British navy, tore on toward Hodeida. Word reached British authorities in Aden that among the Saudite loot in Hodeida were great quantities of Italian-made munitions. The Red Sea is only 100 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARABIA: Fall of Yemen | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

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