Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think the item should have been included in TIME that the boy who as a small child inspired the writing of "Mighty Lak a Rose," now a man of 38. was killed Sunday, Jan. 17 in an automobile crash near Macon...
...about 3,000 troops-some 1,200 marines from his ship, some 2,000 of the Japanese garrison maintained in the Japanese section of the International Settlement. Armored cars with searchlights led the way. Behind them came trucks, jammed with infantry. In reserve were infantry, on foot. Crash! Crash! went the rifles shooting out the street lights as the columns advanced. At every corner trucks stopped. Men hopped out to scurry through the side streets. In the dark twisting alleys no living thing showed but a few frightened dogs, a few yellow-eyed cats. A few airplanes zoomed overhead...
...Akron should some day wrench apart like the Shenandoah, pound to earth like the R-IOI, crash like the Roma or vanish in a sea storm like the Dixmude, two menE. C. McDonald, a construction supervisor and W. B. Underwood, mechanic-were in a position last week to shout to the country: "I told you so!" They had charged that the great dirigible was structurally deficient. The House Naval Affairs Committee was investigating. If any disaster ever befell the Akron, the public, right or wrong, would hark back distrustfully to last week's hearings...
...Crash Behavior...
...Pitcairn telephoned Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, protesting the calumny. Also, in the absence of Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics Ingalls, he appealed to Secretary of the Navy Adams. Result: the Navy Department retracted its statement, announced an investigation to decide whether the crash was the 'giro's fault or the pilot...