Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wreckage of the United Airlines' DC-6 which caught fire and crashed in Utah's Bryce Canyon a fortnight ago gave up its first clue last week. Investigators discovered that the plane's magnesium parachute flares had burned, guessed that they were responsible for the fierceness of the flames. No one knew yet how the fire started. But the Civil Aeronautics Board ruled that flares-designed to be dropped for night emergency landings and carried at a point where the wing joins the fuselage-must be removed from all DC-6 planes...
...alarm, let alone tragedy. Yet radio receivers in United Air Lines offices at Salt Lake City, Denver and San Francisco crackled out a message pregnant with fear: "United 608 sending blind [i.e., calling any station because of emergency]. We have baggage afire aboard this airplane. We are going into Bryce. Don't know if the fire is out yet. We have a smoke-filled airplane...
...hours before, bound for New York with 47 passengers and a crew of five. As soon as the ship's veteran pilot, 42-year-old Captain E. L. McMillen, had discovered the fire, he had reversed his course, headed back over southwestern Utah's jagged Bryce Canyon country, to an emergency strip 20 miles away...
Died. Gerard Barnes Lambert Jr., 35, only son of Yachtsman Gerard B. Lambert, former president of the Lambert (Listerine) Co. and onetime executive chairman of the Gillette Safety Razor Co.; in an air crash; near Bryce Canyon, Utah (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Gerard Jr. was the fourth of his clan to be killed in an airplane crash (1927: cousin James T. Walker Jr.; 1929: cousin George Lea Lambert; 1939: cousin Samuel B. Lambert...
...Inside U.S.A. to be the biggest-selling $5 book ever published), and $40,000 to promote it, Gunther's book is the event of the year. It is unlikely to outlast the year. Like a large proportion of bestsellers, this is journalism between boards. It will shove neither Bryce's American Commonwealth nor the WPA State Guides off the shelf; it is neither as penetrating as the one, nor as useful as the other...