Word: crash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flying in a fog, a pilot may imagine himself to be hundreds of feet above the ground only to crash disastrously to earth. In an extremely sensitive altimeter designed by Arthur W. Uhl of Long Island City, condenser plates are placed on the wing tips in an oscillating circuit. The earth is itself a gigantic conductor and its proximity affects the circuit and warns the pilot through a cockpit indicator. Successful on test, this device may save many a life in such all weather work as that of the Air Mail...
...known alarm clock could have raised such a crowd of students so instantaneously, for in less than two minutes after the crash the scene of the accident was surrounded by a truly motley crowd anxious to assist the victims. Fortunately the toll was slight, the driver of the Chevrolet being the only person to appear even shaken up, while to the spectators' utter astonishment, five men sound in body and mind crawled one after another from the tonneau of the Ford...
Percy Hammond: " The fusillade of pistols, the racket of overturning furniture, the crash of many breaking plates...
...Sahara, the Dixmude met a hurricane above Sardinia?so circled back to the African coast. Next day Sardinia and Corsica passed beneath her. At seven the following morning she hovered over Paris, then dropped a wreath on the monument at Moulins to the victims of the dirigible Republique's crash some years ago, swung back to the Riviera and landed in front of her hangar near Marseilles at the dawn of her fifth day of flight...
...Irene Castle Treman: "Eighty-two residents of Fort Worth, Tex., signed a petition to have the name of Fort Worth's widest street changed from ' Vernon Castle Boulevard' back to ' Boulevard,' its original name. My former husband was killed at Fort Worth in an airplane crash February...