Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until last week Eastern Air Lines was the only major airline in the world which had never killed a passenger.* Last week Eastern's magnificent record of 180,000,000 passenger miles without passenger fatality was spoiled by as cruelly unnecessary a crash as any in aviation's debris-strewn history...
...plane was a Douglas DC2 making its regular run from Chicago to Miami. With veteran Captain Stuart G. Dietz, 33, at the controls it settled to the airport at Daytona Beach, Fla. shortly after 4 a. m. Daytona Beach has been an Eastern Air stop only since May but Captain Dietz was completely familiar with the field. Presently, with co-pilot beside him, steward and six passengers strapped in their seats in the cabin, Captain Dietz taxied to the northern end of the 3,700-ft. NW/SE runway, gave his two motors a final revving, hurtled into...
...nine men on the job worked under bright headlights from four trucks only 150 yds. from the airport office and twice used airport phones to call headquarters. The power company pleaded in the inquiry that it was unable to understand how airport officials remained oblivious of the action. But Eastern Air, whose hard-bitten General Manager Eddie Rickenbacker sped to the spot, presently issued a bitter statement completely exonerating the flight personnel and putting the blame squarely on the power company. A damage suit seemed highly probable...
...Washington, D. C., the only Negroes to earn Harvard Law's degree of Doctor of Juridical Science. Born in Mound City, Ill. "over 60 years ago," President Houston drives a Lincoln Zephyr, gloried in his last autumn's title, "Chairman of the Speakers Bureau, National Democratic Committee, Eastern Division of Colored Voters, by appointment of Mr. James A. Farley...
...Queen Nazli "a handsomer Queen than Cleopatra." His father Fuad considered that "names commencing with 'F' are exceedingly propitious," and today Egyptians consider Farouk just about tops in a name beginning with F since it means in translation "One Who Carefully Distinguishes Between Right & Wrong." In any Eastern country the populace always frantically cheer their Lord and Master,* and both Alexandria and Cairo went deliriously wild last week over Farouk I. In Egypt some $50,000 will buy enough triumphal arches and paper streamers to choke the main streets of Cairo, and this was the sum its civic...