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Word: choy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flying, did not think the Clipper had caught fire. After last January they had changed the design of the gasoline dump valves. What had happened they did not know. The Hearst press suggested that since one of the passengers, a Jersey City, N. J. restaurant owner named Wah Sun Choy, was carrying money to China, was it not a case of Japanese sabotage? An investigator from the Bureau of Air Commerce started from Washington, with little hope of discovering anything. Meanwhile, the Hawaii Clipper'?, sister ships, the China Clipper and the Philippine Clipper, coolly flew their scheduled routes, passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Clipper Down | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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