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...DOUGLAS WILSON Fergus...
Disaster struck in a finger snap. The sleek, shiny Constellation tumbled drunkenly across a swampy, weed-covered islet on an arm of the Fergus River not two miles from the airfield. The left wing struck first, then the nose, which broke off and threw the pilot and copilot clear. The rest of the plane hurtled on, scattering its guts, plowing a deep rut in the mushy land. Watchers on Rineanna heard a thunderous crash as the Star hit, saw the flare of the gasoline.fire reach high into the night...
...holiday crashes were not over. The dead were still being brought down from the California mountain, and carried across Eire's Fergus River when the Chicago radio tower received an urgent message. American Airlines pilot Frank Hamm Jr., on top of the overcast en route from Buffalo to Chicago, had failing engines, would have to land on whatever was handy when he came down out of the cloud. He came out above the shore of Lake Michigan, headed for the Michigan City (Ind.) airport only about 40 miles from Chicago's municipal field. But there was not enough...
...Britain was worried about where she could sell autos, she could find a red-hot market in the automaking but auto-hungry U.S. In a matter of hours last week, Manhattan's Fergus Motors Inc. sold out its stock (30) of bantam-sized Standards. The price, awaiting OPA approval, will be between...
...Fergus Motors will not get rich on Standards. It must pay ?300 ($1,200) for the cars in England, a 10% import duty and a 7% federal tax, besides freight...