Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house. Brown-haired, brown-eyed young Charles went to investigate. Popping with excitement, he ran back into the living room to report that he had seen a masked man through the glass. "I'll get my air rifle,'" he cried, starting for the stairs. A crash of glass stopped him in his tracks, A moment later the masked man was in the room brandishing a revolver. Billy thought the man was crazy or drunk when he made exaggerated gestures with the revolver, shouted: "Don't you kids try anything, because I'm wearing a bullet-proof...
...littered with olive-green scrub oaks. Into one of these ridges Pilot Blom had plowed at full speed. For 1,000 yd. the big plane sheared the trees, losing both wings and finally bashing to a stop in a deep ravine. Everyone was killed instantly. Soapy Blom saw the crash coming, for the ignition was turned off, preventing fire. Broken watches indicated that the crash occurred at 7:38. Three investigations immediately began hunting the cause with little hope of success. Pilot Blom was only five miles from the emergency field at Saugus and only two ridges away from...
United's crash was the last of a series in recent weeks which has the whole U. S. aviation world in a tumult. Until a month ago there had been only four major crashes of scheduled U. S. airliners in 1936. Then, on Dec. 15. a Western Air Express Boeing vanished in Utah with seven aboard. On Dec. 18 a Northwest Air Lines Lockheed vanished with two pilots, but no passengers, aboard. Last week the Boeing was still lost, but the Lockheed had been found, buried in the snow near Kellogg, Idaho, with both men dead...
Thus did Publisher Julius David Stern give texts for a sermon about "a $100,000 blowout for the cream of U. S. society . . . with all the gloss and gaiety of the careless, incredible, forgotten days before the Crash," and James Harvey Gravell's "way of showing his faith in the New Deal...
Married, Mrs. Lillian R. Coogan, 41, mother of onetime Cinemactor John Leslie ("Jackie") Coogan; and Arthur Bernstein, 51, manager of Jackie Coogan Productions, Inc. which holds the Coogan film fortune; in Las Vegas, Nev. Two years ago Father Coogan was killed in an automobile crash which Jackie survived (TIME...