Word: fabricators
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inspection flight at Lakehurst when a terrific gust of wind whipped her tail free of the ground crew, bounced it against the ground. After a five-minute tussle the Akron was made fast again. The lower stabilizing fin, containing the after-control car, was smashed; a large expanse of fabric torn from the belly...
...yank the ripcord which would open a 25-ft. gash in the top of the helium cell, dropping the blimp instantly. Mechanic Blair leaned from a gondola window, put his weight on the cord, fell out to his death. The Columbia collapsed in a tangle of metal and fabric. From the wreck was dragged Pilot Dixon, unhurt...
...Corruption of public trust in high places, acts akin to treason and affecting the entire nation, cannot be tolerated or condoned. It appears conceded as a fact established during several thousand years, and not now to be philosophized away, that the fabric of justice cannot endure if mercy be permitted to set aside the penalties meted out in our gravest criminal cases by our highest law tribunal. . . . Parole issuance would be unjustifiable and incompatible with the welfare of society...
...nation steeped in depression becomes introspective. Some of the evils which brought on the collapse are now becoming apparent to the more thoughtful. For ten years after the war America had been living without any standards behind which her complex civilization might seek refuge. The moral, economic, and social fabric of the country was shot through with shoddy. There were no foundations, no guiding principles, no goals to direct the forces which men had set at work. There was only a vast and orunte superstructure builded upon a pediment of strawless brick...
Meanwhile, as Cunard shares from $2 to $1.25, experts ponder would happen to No. 534 if left ur on the ways. Already she is in constant shoring up to prevent sa the fabric. It was suggested that at least the stern might be hurried to coi so that the vessel might be floated. Tied up at dock, she has better chance standing the unkind elements and the unkinder financial weather...