Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three other of Pan-Am's 314s were in service this week, two on the Pacific run, the third on the New York-Bermuda route, operated by Pan-Am alone since the crash of Imperial Airways' Cavalier (TIME, Jan. 30). The Easter rush of Bermuda vacationers set an airline record: the Bermuda Clipper carried 60 passengers on each of three north-bound trips...
...named Oscar was catapulted headfirst against an automobile windshield. The pane cracked and some crumbs of glass fell outside the car. But when Oscar's head hit it, the pane bulged outward two or three inches. If the dummy had been a real person involved in a motor crash, this elastic yield of the glass might have saved him a skull fracture...
...Crash experts of CAA's Air Safety Board attributed Braniff's crash to the left engine's throwing a cylinder. As Pilot Claude Seaton turned back to the field the disintegrating motor apparently ripped open its cowling, forming such a centre of head resistance that the ship slewed sidewise into the ground. Like the Braniff crash, the crack-up of a Northwest Airlines Lockheed near Miles City, Mont. Jan. 13 was due to mechanical failure. Last week CAA announced its apparent cause: a fire, originating in a floorboard compartment in the pilot's cabin through which...
...Step, the Castle Walk. They opened a chain of four ballrooms and made about $15,000 a week. When Irene Castle bobbed her hair, a million other U. S. women aped her. Vernon Castle enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps in 1916. When he was killed in a crash at Fort Worth, Tex., on Feb. 15, 1918, the Castles' career became a legend, commemorated by a dance craze that is not over...
...METROPOLITAN--Go to "Dodge City" in a reminiscent mood and you will enjoy it, for it will bring back with the crash of a six-shooter those days ten years ago when you slipped down to the neighborhood theatre with a quarter burning a hole in your pocket. This is the western of the 20's recreated faithfully, with all the old thrills and all the old cliches. It has the same story abut the indomitable sheriff who cleans up the toughest town in the West. It has the same bad man whose gang rules the town with a cruel...