Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South China Sea, the passengers settled down for the routine half-hour flight to Aparri. Suddenly the plane lurched into a 45° bank. Purser Eduardo Diago came down the aisle reassuring passengers: "That was a terrific downdraft." He tried the handle of the pilot's cabin, tried again, and began hammering on the door. Then the passengers saw him slump to the floor, blood spurting from his left eye. There were two bullet holes in the cabin door. Only then did the passengers notice that the young Chinese in the leopard-skin jacket was not with them...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings might well have called her latest novel "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen." Her farmer hero, Ase Linden, is a rawboned, ungainly man of probity without a mean bone in his 6 ft. 4 in. body. Born in a log cabin in the 18605, Ase dies in the age of flight, but his sad saga never gets off the ground...
...U.S.S. Helena, bearing the next President and his advisers, coursed for Hawaii under a sunny tropical sky. The Pacific's mood was good for pleasant cruising, and the admiral's cabin an equally pleasant place for palaver and planning. No phones distracted, no callers importuned as the men who will lead the U.S. mulled things over in oceanic seclusion. ''We may never again have the opportunity to hold talks such as these aboard the ship," said the future Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. "They should pay dividends for many years...
...World Airways' Cuban affiliate Aviacion Cubana, roared northeastward out of Bermuda's Kindley Field before dawn one day last week. Just after the takeoff, one of the four engines of the Madrid-to-Havana plane faltered. "I was just going to run to the front of the cabin and warn the passengers when we hit the water," Steward Orlando Lopez Suarez later recalled. "The tail broke off ... I found a rubber dinghy, but it was punctured and would not inflate . . . then the plane sank and I guess the other people sank because they had their seat belts fastened...
...crew would feel no gravity at all. In this "zero gravity field," they could neither stand nor sit unless held firmly in position. If they tried to sleep in bunks, the slightest motion would flip them out. The jet effect of even gentle breathing would waft them across the cabin...