Word: hurt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passengers were strapped to their seats ready for the landing at Burbank. As Passenger Arthur Robinson recalled: "Suddenly the plane began to drop-drop. Then there was a terrible crash. My seat belt kept me in my seat. I didn't lose consciousness, but my leg and side hurt. I guess I was about the only one that wasn't knocked out." Passenger Robinson set off alone down the snow-spattered mountain, managed to stagger four miles to the Olive View Sanitarium despite a broken ankle. Inmates there had heard the impact and screams of the victims borne...
...already in an official state of shock over the five crashes of the past month. WAE's second capped the climax. Pilot Lewis, too hurt to be questioned at length, was quoted by rescuers as mumbling: "There were three or four different voices on the radio and I couldn't make out any of them." This became the foundation for a number of bitter attacks on the Bureau of Air Commerce, operators of the radio beam system. Senator Copeland, chairman of the Senate Air Safety Committee, put the whole blame for recent crashes on the Bureau, demanded that...
...strike as mediator last week. "The day of violence in labor disputes has passed in the United States." Same day in Cleveland, pickets tried to keep a Fisher Body manager out of his plant. When police tried to clear a path, an officer was knocked down, two picketers were hurt and bruised...
...Sosthenes Behn was still with his battered building, although the U. S. and British embassies had long since been officially evacuated, and last week were scarred by air bomb splinters. Splinters lodged in the heads of a left-behind British military attache and an Englishwoman but neither was seriously hurt...
Contributions which it would hurt their conscience to place above realistic art will be classed as Sourealistic...