Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pilot under such conditions is helpless. He cannot tell where there is a spot to land; he cannot guess whether the earth is thousands of feet away or grazing the wheels of his landing carriage. Sergeant Gilbert, moreover, was not familiar with the route. He decided that a crash was unavoidable. He jumped...
...Crash-proof passenger cabins...
...placing the tanks as far as possible from the engine, particularly not along the line of the motor and the longitudinal axis of the machine. The inherent stability which the code insists on would lessen chances of losing-control. Grover C. Loening, famed aeronautical engineer, has suggested that crash-proof passenger cabins might be built, immune from injury no matter the height of fall. This may be too much to hope for. The code at least demands that all edges of cockpits shall be well padded and that the padding should be extended to cover the front, part of cockpit...
...cafeteria. He saw changes coming. He knew that the cafeteria was doomed. For more than two decades he had run the dinning halls successfully and well. He knew that the men who were eating in the cafeteria would not fleck to Memorial when the cafeteria was closed. Before the crash came he resigned...
Hosts of Roman Catholics flock to Rome in a Jubilee year. In 1450, so great was the crowd that passed over the bridge of St. Angelo, that the bridge collapsed with great crash and carnage. This year, streams of the faithful from all parts of the world are already starting on their pilgrimage. In Manhattan, a prelate gave them warning: "For a great many, I fear, the pilgrimage will resolve itself into a de luxe sightseeing tour of Europe. To many it will be an opportunity of visiting the Europe which, to them, is bounded by the boulevards of Paris...