Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this—Charley, get out of the way please! It is bursting into flames. This is terrible! This is one of the worst catastrophes in the world! The flames are 500 ft. into the sky. It is a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It is in smoke and flames now. Oh, the humanity! Those passengers! I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen! Honest, it is a mass of smoking wreckage. Lady, I am sorry. Honestly, I can hardlyק am going to step inside where I can't see it. Charley, that is terrible! Listen, folks, I am going...
With a Cra-a-a-ack! the ship buckled. Down on the ground went the stern with a peculiarly gentle crash amid clouds of dust and smoke. As the still undamaged bow tilted up at 45°, the flame rushed through the middle and geysered in a long bright plume from the nose. For an instant the Hindenburg seemed a rearing reptile darting its tongue in anger. Then it was a gigantic halfback tackled behind the knees and falling forward on its face. The huge bag settled slowly to earth with fire roaring over it 50 yd. a second. Last...
Died. Frederick G. ("Teddy") Oke, 51, Toronto stockbroker; after a month's illness; in Toronto. A onetime hockey professional, he made a market killing in mining stocks, promoted many a women's sports team, sank millions in the International Hockey League. Ruined by the 1929 crash, he ordered his women's softball team disbanded last autumn when he discovered that the girls were smoking...
...screech of brakes-a crash! a human cry. Muffled steps, a sob, a childish plea...
...climbed a standard Douglas DC2 transport with a few subtle changes in wing design. When it landed again after buzzing back & forth over the Tehachapi Mountains for several hours, Douglas officials revealed that they had devised a satisfactory way to prevent the unique icing of ailerons which caused the crash of a Transcontinental & Western Air Douglas DC2 fortnight ago near Pittsburgh (TIME, April 5). Chief Engineer Arthur E. Raymond merely added a few inches to the underside of the wing in front of the slot where the ailerons hinge on. This reduces the flow of air through the slot, thus...