Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Britain III. Fifteen minutes before the start, which had been postponed for three hours because of rough water, the Delphine V sputtered out from her boat well, where mechanics had been trying to solder up leaks in her fuel lines. Two miles below the grandstands, she burst into flames. Her crew drove her ashore, stood by safe but helpless while Delphine V burned to the waterline...
...reward for quitting his "private war" against the Japanese, General Chiang last week offered him a choice of three big jobs in the Nanking Government: 1) Inspector General of the Army, 2) Commissioner of Forestation and Colonization for the Northwest or 3) Improvement Commissioner for the Yellow River, which burst its dykes in July, and last week was still boiling. Observers expected Feng, licking his chops over this choice of plums, to choose the job of Inspector General of the Army...
...Captain Albert Berry when he made the first test parachute jump from an airplane in 1912. Since 1919 552 flyers have bailed out with parachutes, left their ships to rocket wildly to earth. A notable fall in this rain came in 1919 when the airship Wing foot Express burst into flames while flying over Chicago's business district. The two pilots parachuted away. The Wingfoot Express crashed through the skylight of Illinois Trust & Savings Bank, killing 13 bank employes. Much more frequent are accidents in which the pilot of a plane disabled over the city has crashed with...
...fine morning in 1858, a sweet infant boy, Gosuke Katakura, was born in the ancient empire of Japan. In that same year because a New Englander, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, had burst into the Bay of Yedo with four gunboats, the first commercial treaty between Japan and the U. S. was signed. If Gosuke's honorable father ever thought of any connection between the two events, he certainly did not conceive that the result would be 1) Gosuke becoming a multimillionaire; 2) Gosuke becoming peer of Japan; 3) Gosuke at the age of 75 going, in a silk suit...
...years ago in a Russian passenger plane with a Russian pilot, Reporter-at-Large Ellery Walter was jerked from contemplating a beautiful sunrise by a sickening sputter in the motor. Realizing the ship was out of gasoline, the pilot tugged frantically at the fuel pump, got a dying burst of power which enabled him to clear some trees by a breath-taking margin, land in a cornfield. When Reporter Walter got his breath back he asked how the fuel could be exhausted just after leaving an airport where barrels of it were available. The pilot, who had not shaved...