Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before the Chicago could swing her bow around again, a second ship, the British freighter Silver Palm, came plowing down on her out of the fog on the port side. The Chicago reversed engines, blared a long shrill collision call. The Silver Palm tried to stop. With a metallic crash her prow rammed 18 feet deep into the side of the Chicago just forward of the first gun turret. Two officers and a pay clerk were crushed to death. The Navy Department immediately ordered an investigation but could not find or identify the missing brown ship which had caused...
...second time this week Harvard coaches have been the victims of bombing outrages at Soldiers Field. Last night when Coach Eddie Bradford stepped on the self-starter of his automobile, a loud crash burst on the stillness of the Cambridge evening. The whole rear-end of his Ford rose in the air and clouds of smoke enveloped the car: then a series of staccato machine-gun blasts; then silence...
...loud crash yesterday afternoon on the steps descending from the main floor to the lower Treasure Room of the Harvard College Library startled students and officials in the vicinity. Investigation revealed that a large flat glass chandelier, which was suspended from the ceiling above the steps had fallen down. One of the Library secretaries, who was descending the stairs at the time, barely escaped injury, as the falling fixture missed hitting her by a matter of inches...
...Chan than cinema's Warner Oland, gets a head start when he is added to the party, to find out what happened to a son whom the host believes the singer bore him. The femme fatale is shot almost under the inspector's eyes, but an airplane crash occurring simultaneously outside creates confusion. After more shooting has reduced the suspects from seven to six, Chan lurks omniscently on the set while the guests take turns popping in & out. He pins things at last on the most disarming member of the cast, after a sentimental interlude with another Chinese...
...southeast of Chicago, were frightened by a terrific explosion overhead. They ran from their houses to see No. 23 gyrating crazily in the sky. its tail broken off. With its cabin lights ablaze, the plane spun to earth, whipped off the tops of a clump of trees, crashed on its back with another earsplitting blast. Towering flames did the rest. Investigators soon discovered this was no ordinary crash. A good ship, flown in good weather by a company which had lost no passenger in six years and 40 million miles of multi-motored flying, does not simply collapse. Engines...