Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Royal Air Force. Few months afterward he flew back to England in record time. Later he made a second trip, settled down to a job as commercial pilot in Australia, got his face permanently scarred when he dashed into a burning plane to save a passenger after a crash. Last autumn tall, rangy Lieut. Scott came to world fame when he flew to Australia once more, won the MacRobertson Trophy Race and ?20,000. Last week in Paris he was given what everybody expected: the Harmon Trophy as No. 1 airman...
...March of Time edition contains: 1) the dramatic crisis in the office of the New York Daily News on the night of the Hauptmann verdict; 2) an electric light bulb breaking, milk dropping into a pan, photographed by a camera 150 times faster than the human eye; 3) the crash of the Mohawk and Talisman off the New Jersey shore; 4) the story of Convict Huddie Ledbetter ("Lead Belly") whose Negro songs get him pardoned for murder...
...Washington the House Patents Committee heard Roy W. Knabenshue, pioneer airshipman, allege that acid had been poured on the late great Macon's girders and guy-wires by the Filipino mess-boy who lost his life in the airship crash. Though Commander Wiley pooh-poohed the suggestion, high Navy officials admitted sabotage was a "distinct possibility...
...negative publicity out of the way quickly and it will be possible for Eastern Air Lines to secure the assistance of the Press, such as eliminating the name of the company on the wrecked plane in taking photographs,* and minimizing unfavorable photographs and reference in stories of the crash. By giving all the information possible immediately, of the incident, the story will be covered in one issue and the papers will have nothing to write about to drag it along for several days...
...crowing: "Give me 5% of them and I'll make $10,000,000." A sworn foe of Wall Street, which warmly reciprocates his sentiments, he once declared: "I'm no angel but these directors who short their own stock-why, I sold out my stock before the Crash, but I kept every share of those in which I was connected with the management. That little gesture cost...