Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lithuanian flyers Stephan Darius and Stanley Girenas, who flashed across public consciousness so briefly that few people could repeat their names, were nearly forgotten last week when a horrid rumor grew about their crash at Soldin, Germany, near the Polish border. Every one had accepted the theory that their fuel supply had run out while they were trying to complete their flight from New York to Kovno, Lithuania. But a Lithuanian newspaper hinted that the airplane Lithuanica had been downed by a "death ray" aimed from German soil...
...Communist airplane which they suspected of an attempt to rescue some prisoners, the guards cut loose with machine guns, brought the plane down in flames. Hardly was the Her ald's story in print when the Lithuanian Government's investigating committee formally declared the crash accidental...
...spacious halls of the commerce department, once wonted to bow low when a Business Man have in view, are witnessing strange things. The spectacle is typical of the new heaven and the new earth being manufactured out of professors' ideals and Johnson's dynamic crash and irreverence...
...successfully around India and back, refused to take off for Switzerland. Finally the First Working Partner climbed up beside his ace, ordered, "We must start!" The engine roared. Thundering across the perfectly smooth Bat'a airfield the plane began to lift, vanished into the fog and then inexplicably crashed. Both the pilot and Thomas Bat'a were killed. They were buried near each other in a nearby woodland cemetery. Last week at the exact moment of the crash, the House of Bat'a's 25,000 working partners gathered not to mourn but to dedicate...
...automobile crash in San Antonio, Tex. injured plump, benevolent Edgar B, Davis, rubber & oil tycoon who spent $1,500,000 to keep the play The Ladder going for 22 months in 1927-28 because he believed in its "message" about transmigration of souls...