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...Loening, President of the Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corporation, his brother Albert T. Loening and two pilots narrowly escaped drowning in the East River while testing out a new set of controls on one of their flying boats, the Breezewing. The experimental controls jammed and the boat made a nose dive into the river of 300 feet. Carried under water, the occupants were able to release themselves and were rescued by a motor boat acting as tender. The Breezewing, equipped with a 400 horsepower Liberty and capable of 130 miles per hour, was greatly damaged, but the aviators sustained only minor...
When George M. Cohan waves the American flag at the end of one of his plays staid men and stayed women are aroused to a tremendous pitch of enthusiasm. Therefore when "The Man Who Came Back" hits bottom in a low dive in Shanghai and utters the thrilling words that he is "Going to go back, every step of the way, and, by Heck, he's going to take Her with him", it is small surprise that the St. James audience think "he's. jist grand...
...McCook on a flight to Langley. In the face of a head wind, Captain Lawson-a distinguished war pilot- could not clear a bridge across the Miami at the edge of the field, and a sharp turn, though well advised under the circumstances, resulted in an almost vertical nose-dive into the river with the instantaneous death of these four men and serious injury to a fifth...
Gunther, who was operating the machine suddenly lost control of the plane for some reason which will probably never be ascertained, so that the machine plunged into a nose-dive and crashed into the bay. The bodies have not yet been recovered...
Even as when a cow eats a cocoanut or an elephant does a high dive, it is an event when a ball player writes a book. There are those, to be sure, who view with unworthy suspicion professional athletes in the world of literature. And it is even whispered that a certain prominent heavyweight and an equally prominent golf champion do not actually compose the treatises attributed to them in the public prints. But be these things as they very well may, Everett ("Deacon") Scott, of the New York Yankees, has entered the field of literature with a novel entitled...