Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army dines early in Fukui. At 5:14 p.m. we were sitting in the concrete officers' mess, waiting for dessert and coffee. There wasn't any warning-the floor just pushed up under us, and great chunks of wall and ceiling began to crash about us. We staggered for doors and windows, knocking into each other and falling to the floor. The driveway before the building buckled up before me as I bounced over it, while concrete slabs thudded down from above. We flung ourselves on the compound lawn, but the earth shook so violently that some...
Seconds before the crash, the DC-6 roared 100 feet over the floor of a narrow valley near Mt. Carmel. It was heading into a coal mine's tall breaker building. Then it veered-and the next instant there was no more plane. It rammed a 66,000-volt transformer and disintegrated in a flash of flame. It was 1948's worst airline disaster, and the fourth worst in U.S. domestic airline history...
What had caused the awful trouble aboard Flight 624 might never be known. There was no survivor; parts of bodies were found 450 feet from the crash.* The Civil Aeronautics Board's investigators had almost nothing to go on. Some witnesses at the scene said at first that the plane had been trailing smoke; then they were not so sure. All that was left of the plane were a few large hunks of engines, a few propeller blades, some jagged chunks of fuselage...
Killed. Earl Carroll, 55, gaunt, gaudy Broadway writer-producer (So Long Letty, White Cargo, Vanities), latter-day Hollywood nightclub owner; in an airplane crash; near Mt. Carmel, Pa. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Carroll got his start as a lyricist for the late Enrico Caruso, went on to produce 15 editions of his Vanities, two Sketch Books. He declared bankruptcy in 1936, two years later opened his colossal nightclub...
Most of the other major planemakers got from $40 million to $70 million apiece. Lockheed will build 585 more F80 Shooting Stars and trainers, plus 82 Navy patrol planes; Republic another 409 F-84 Thunderjets; Curtiss-Wright 88 F87 multiple-jet fighters and reconnaissance planes. Despite the crash of a Flying Wing model last fortnight, Northrop got an order for 30 Wings. Douglas and Grumman walked off with the lion's share of the Navy orders, around $50 million apiece for fighters and attack planes...