Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wheel. When Pilot Charles ("Chuck" ) Weiblen of Pittsburgh Airways took off from Pittsburgh's Bettis Field for Buffalo with three women passengers, airport officials saw one of his wheels dangling crazily. Unaware of the damage, Pilot Weiblen would naturally attempt a normal landing at his destination-and crack up. A mail plane was dispatched with a sign ''broken wheel" hastily painted on its side. Pilot Weiblen saw, turned back, made four attempts to land on one wheel. On the fifth he succeeded, dug a wingtip into the ground, damaged the ship only slightly. The three passengers took...
...summoned William Wallace Atterbury, then general manager (now president) of Pennsylvania R. R., made him Chief of Transportation. He had "personality, force, grasp of the difficulties and willingness" which made him one of General Pershing's favorite subordinates. Between them there were endless conferences. Brigadier General Atterbury did a crack job with transportation and, in the eyes of his chief, contributed largely to the success of the A. E. F.'s later military operations...
...Lakehurst Naval Air Station from Washington went Lieut. Commander Rosendahl last week, to assemble for his new command a crack crew?about ten officers, 40 enlisted men?from the personnel trained aboard the Los Angeles (his old command). As second-in-command of the Akron the Navy picked Lieut. Commander Herbert V. Wiley, a veteran of the Shenandoah and of five years service on the Los Angeles. Chief engineer, in charge of the eight Maybachmotors which will drive Akron at 83 m. p. h., is Lieut. Commander Bertram J. Rodgers...
Burton's soldier father was glad to further his son's military ambition, but was too poor to buy him a commission in a crack regiment. Young Richard had to be content with the native army of the East India Company. But the routine of army life soon bored him; he was always putting in for risky assignments: investigations in disguise among the natives, a journey to Harrar in Somaliland, whence no white man had ever returned; searching for the source of the Nile (his companion Speke got the credit for discovering Victoria Nyanza, but Burton led the expedition...
...city had been put under martial law. No one rested, but soldiers relieved from digging in the ruins patrolled the city with fixed bayonets. Col. Frederic C. Bradman of the Marines ordered the patrols to shoot all stray dogs on sight (fear of rabies) and anyone caught looting. The crack of a sentry's rifle tumbled one man like a jackrabbit; in his pockets were seven $1,000 bills, dug from the shell of one of Ma nagua's banks. Four other persons, thirst-crazed, were shot by Marines as they tried to drink the polluted lake waters...