Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's eyes sparkled appreciatively last week when he stepped ashore on a Treasure Island as fabulous as Robert Louis Stevenson's. Like a big green peppermint gum drop ringed with a frost of spun sugar, the densely vegetated peaks of Cocos Island rose some 2,000 ft. over his head, while all around the island's steep 13-mile perimeter the Pacific lathered its boiling white waves. Offshore the President could see porpoise sporting glossily. Shark fins cut through the tropical waters like grey scimitars. And a flight of boatswain birds chattered about his head...
...back to get his coat. That was the last anyone saw of him alive. Suddenly the walls of the building flew out like the staves of a collapsing barrel. Two freight cars beside the loading platform were reduced to chips. Bodies of workmen landed in the street, one 50 ft. from the plant. A water tank sailed through the air, smashed an automobile flat as a cockroach. Shattered gas mains spread a sickening stench. Firemen, menaced by loops of live wires, were afraid to cut into the shambles with acetylene torches because of fumes. The last of the dead...
...Cheyenne, late one night last week, the airport radio operator heard the calm voice of United Airlines Pilot H. A. ("No Collision") Collison report that his big, twin-motored Boeing transport, bound from San Francisco to New York with twelve aboard, was but a few miles away, 4,000 ft. up, ready to glide down for the scheduled Cheyenne landing. Simultaneously, another plane approached from the East. "Please delay landing until further orders while Westbound plane comes in," radioed the operator to Pilot Collison. There was no answer. The operator signaled again. Still there came no sound of the pilot...
...plane was apparently intact when it first struck. Scars on the ground showed it hit three times before the final crash. After the first two bounces Collison seemed somehow to have gained 200 ft. of altitude, although the undercarriage was smashed and the engines lost, and failed by a tragic ten feet to clear the last hill which might have enabled him to make a "bellyskid" landing on the slope beyond...
...Knoxville, Tenn.'s Asbury Cemetery, the parents of the late Pete Kreis, automobile racer killed in a test run at Indianapolis last year, finished installing over his grave an 11-ft.-by-5-ft. monument showing a racing car hurtling over a speedway retaining wall. Said his mother Ida: "Pete always liked things different...