Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nadeau went up to the Congressman's office on the fifth floor, found him writing. "Come on, Marion, let's go," said his brother-in-law. Mr. Zioncheck rose, dodged suddenly into the next room, plunged through an open window. He struck the sidewalk head first, 50 ft. from the car where his wife was sitting. She screamed, fainted. On the dead man's desk was found this final scribble: "My only hope in life was to improve the condition of an unfair economic system that held no promise to those that all the wealth of even...
...months old, the twin-motored, ten-passenger Lockheed-Electra City of Memphis was on its regular run from New Orleans to Chicago, Chicago & Southern Air-Lines' sole route. At St. Louis, motors and controls were examined, found perfect. After getting a weather report which noted a 2,000-ft. ceiling at St. Louis, low-lying fog along the way and unlimited visibility at Chicago, the City of Memphis had soared off into the dark at 9:56 p. m. with a fresh pilot, a copilot, six passengers. One of the latter was Captain Vernon C. Omlie, oldtime flyer...
...three hours before the shattered City of Memphis was found. Then ground crew stumbled on an isolated clearing on the Behlmann farm, found 400-ft. swath through the corn strewn with the wreckage of the $50,000 all-metal plane. Scattered among the debris were the bodies of the eight victims, all killed instantly. The pilot's watch had stopped...
...first day of competition he broke the world's record for 100 metres in a trial heat (10.2 sec.). On the second day, he won the final in world-record time (10.3). On the third, he won the broad jump with a new Olympic record (26 ft., 5 21/64 in.). On the fourth, he won the 200-metre dash with a new world's record (20.7 sec.) for a track with a turn. Finally, selected for the U. S. 400-metre relay team, he helped it equal the world's record in a trial heat, break...
...weeks of haggling over models. Up for debate was the question of whether Birmingham's Vulcan should be ugly and misshapen, as mythology insists, or a handsome Hermes as many Alabamians insisted. The ugly Vulcan won. Plaster casts were made during the winter and the hulking Vulcan, 50 ft. 6 in. from head to toe, was cast by the James R. McWane Foundry. The finished product weighed 60 tons...