Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then came disaster. The line failed to get the mail contracts it needed. Crashes killed not only Jimmy Wedell, but all five other original pilots on the line. Last May a crash killed Harry Williams. Last week, for an undisclosed price, his widow, one-time Cinemactress Marguerite Clark, sold the business to Eastern Air Lines, which flies between New York and New Orleans. Present Wedell-Williams airline is the 338-mi. run from New Orleans to Houston, Tex. In honor of its unlucky founders. Eastern will call this important extension the Wedell-Williams Division...
...able Governor Wilbur ("Uncle Toby") Cross, instead of being kept at arm's length like Governor Curley, was applauded in every Roosevelt speech beginning before the State Capitol (where eleven women and a boy fainted) and ending at Stamford (where several people were injured in an automobile crash). In each town through which the President motored, the schools were dismissed and a general holiday proclaimed. At New Haven where Yale dormitories were decked with Landon banners but no boos were uttered, the President lunched with his eldest son's father-in-law, Dr. Harvey Gushing. Most enthusiastic crowd...
...investigation of air travel implying that this is an adventure rather than a convenience, Without Orders is likely to arouse more indignation from airline executives than enthusiasm from lay audiences. Best and most inevitable shot: the wrecked plane of a stunt flyer (Vinton Haworth) bursting into flames after its crash...
Gold Fever is the work of Lewis Mariano Nesbitt (The Hell Hole of Creation) who was killed last year in an airplane crash in Switzerland. A series of sketches of gold mining on the Rand, South Africa, it is based on Nesbitt's experiences as an engineer there in 1912 and is written with considerable literary distinction. It is noteworthy for its account of the great miners' strike of 1913, for its sketches of Nesbitt's fellow-miners, for some poetic but subdued descriptions of life 7,000 ft. underground...
...influenced by Max Eastman and Floyd Dell. Freeman was a Socialist during the War, supported the action of Columbia's Historian Charles Beard, who resigned in protest against the expulsion of pacifist professors. Working as a foreign correspondent in Paris and London after the War, Freeman covered the crash of the ZR-2, worked under Floyd Gibbons, conducted a long international correspondence on political and literary matters with his old schoolmates, many of whose letters he includes in his autobiography, saw enough of journalism to be sure it was not his career. Returning to the U. S. he wrote...