Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BOOM! POW! CRASH! Every 15 minutes all night long bombs burst in Havana as token that the advertised Terrorist week against the Government of Gerardo Machado had commenced. Beyond breaking a great many windows and killing a three-year-old child, the bombs did little damage. When it comes to terror, horn-spectacled Dictator Machado is still more than a match for his opponents. Cursing, police reserves and ununiformed gangs of the dreaded Porra (secret police) poured out and went to work...
...Voss and his partner L. 0. Dearden, another victim of the crash, were not only dentists but dope smugglers. Working with a former Air Force Officer named Pleass they would take frequent trips from the continent by air, drop packages of dope attached to tiny silk parachutes from the plane windows at pre-arranged spots. According to this story they knew that they were to be arrested when the City of Liverpool landed. Dr. Voss set fire to the plane, cremating his partner and his niece, and jumped on the 1,000-to-1 chance that he might escape with...
...Facing the Committee from a small table at the mouth of the horseshoe stood a stocky, curly-haired young man in an open-necked Navy blouse, with the crossed white anchors of a bos'n's mate on his sleeve. He was Richard Deal, survivor of the crash of the Shenandoah and one of three survivors of the 76 who sailed on the U. S. S. Akron's last voyage. Gesticulating now & then with his bandaged right hand, he read from a sheaf of typewritten papers...
...seconds. 1 noted immediately that the lower rudder-control rope had carried away." Then the upper control rope went. Then the man at the elevator controls calling out laconically "800 feet . . . 300 feet." ... I sighted the waves through the window and gave the order 'Stand by for a crash.' There was no further conversation in the control car after this order. . . . We hit the water . . . much harder than I expected. The water surged in my [starboard] window and must have carried me out the port window...
...second subject of inquiry by the Naval Court was the crash of the little Navy blimp J3, which used to nestle under the great ventral fin of the Akron, in the Lakehurst dock, like an egg about to be hatched. The J-3 was sent out into dirty weather with a crew of seven in her open gondola, on the report that Akron survivors had been sighted clinging to bits of wreckage off Barnegat. Thrashed by the gale, she was forced to drop into the pounding surf whence a small amphibian of the New York Police picked two officers, three...