Word: edinburg
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They flew out of the snow, into fog and rain, then at 6:45 p.m. happily down to a shallow lake on Richard King's Santa Fe Ranch near Edinburg, 80 miles southwest of Corpus Christi. The officers slept in the plane, were found next morning by two cowboys who led them out of the desert brush to the ranch house. Then Murray Hanson learned what happened to the men who had jumped at his order. One was killed; his parachute had been torn from his body. One was unhurt. Three were injured and in hospitals at Big Spring...
Meanwhile, 260 miles west, near the Ohio State line at Edinburg, Pa., it was the Burton Powder Works' (American Cyanamid Co.) turn. A half-ton of dynamite (one of the stablest of explosives) blew up. Dead: the three men within reach of its thunderous punch...