Word: crash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plane is but a tiny speck. But sometimes a malign fate seems actually to draw two machines together. Strong winds blew two Navy Vought airplanes into collision at Pensacola, Fla. Captain George F. Hill and Lieutenant Cornelius McFadden, both of the Marine Corps, were instantly killed in the crash. Lieutenant M. A. Richal, pilot of the second plane, is probably fatally injured...
...shoos away from her attractive, gambling husband. But she employs an old, old shoo: she saves money on the side. When the crash comes they depart to hatch a new life out of her nest...
George Arliss impersonates, as he did in the stage version of two years ago, the Oxford-trained Rajah of Rukh. Into the Rajah's kingdom crash (in an airplane) two Englishmen and an English woman. Political friction, which obtains at the moment between the Rajah and the British rule in India, complicated by his sensibility of the woman's singular attractions, persuade the dignitary to sacrifice the males to the Green Goddess. The discovery of a wireless set in his palace and the subsequent arrival of British airplanes help to counteract his inhospitable intentions. The plot is well...
Ever since the crash in 1920, the leather companies have been in almost continuous difficulties. Addeo to their huge losses on inventory values is the fact that since leather is a by-product of the meat and other industries, the leather trade cannot regulate the supply of raw hides with the same ease as other industries regulate their sources of supply. Moreover, the new styles in women's shoes make for a reduced use of leather, and automobile manufacturers are employing painted cloth and leather substitutes to a greater degree than formerly...
...wealthy American oil men, Arthur and Joseph Steep, of Oil City, Pa., and their pilot, Gabriel Poulain, were killed in a crash near Le Bourget, France-the fatal end of a 30-mile pleasure trip. Poulain achieved many exploits during the War, and on July 9, 1921, won the Peugeot prize of 10,000 francs for flying a distance of 35 feet and rising more than three feet in a man-driven airplane. This was achieved in the " aviette," a combination of bicycle and biplane, which rose after a rapid run on the ground. Poulain's death will...