Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere over Greenland the giant Kee Bird lost its bearings, plunged down to a crash landing on a frozen lake. For three days the eleven-man crew sat it out, tapping out signals on a gasoline-powered radio. When a C-54 skimmed in for the rescue it was so cold that the pilot, Lieutenant Bobbie Joe Cavnar, never dared stop his engines...
...went the rescue planes again-Superforts and tiny amphibians. But before the crash had been located, a rescuing B-29 blazed up from an engine fire near Naknak. Unable to check the flames, the crew bailed out. All but one were promptly picked up by civilian search planes...
This week three other Pennsylvania trains were wrecked on a single night. At Freeport, Pa., Engineer W. T. Nixon was killed when his locomotive rammed a standing freight. At Belvidere, N.J., three were injured in a similar crash. And just east of the now infamous Bennington curve, three cars of an eastbound freight jumped the tracks...
Contemporary composers rarely crash the culture-pearly gates of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Italian-born Gian-Carlo Menotti has done it twice in the past ten years. It has been an honor unaccompanied by noises of a cash register. Menotti's 1937 Amelia Goes to the Ball and his 1942 The Island God together got only nine Met performances (he was paid about $150 a time). In 1939 he wrote a modest little chamber opera for the radio, The Old Maid and the Thief, which has since been given 100 times and earned far more than his grand operas...
...Second member of Egypt's royal family to die within a week. Her cousin, Princess Amina Bahruz Fadel, 61, was killed two days earlier in a plane crash off Terracina, Italy...