Word: laguardias
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...York City's LaGuardia Field, 42 were killed in a take-off accident that ended in flaming death in a United Airlines DC-4 for all but six of its occupants. It was the worst airline accident in U.S. history-but there was a worse one before the sun had set again. Next evening a Florida-bound Eastern Airlines DC-4, stricken by structural failure, plunged out of a sunlit sky into a Maryland bog, and the lives of the 53 passengers and crew were snuffed out in the twinkling...
...fields of Maryland the sunny, early evening sky was cloudless and clear. From their DC-3, Civil Aeronautics Board inspectors watched Eastern Airlines' Miami-bound plane pass their slower craft and wing majestically down the airway to the south. The CABmen were flying back to Washington from LaGuardia Field after investigating the worst disaster in the history of U.S. civil aviation (see below). The plane that had just passed was doomed to figure in an even more horrible...
...were lucky. Last week Mr. & Mrs. Sybrand van der Dussen arrived in New York with their eleven children. Sturdy Dutch burghers from Rotterdam, they had a somewhat unnerving time at LaGuardia Airport. They were surrounded by newsmen, and two-year-old Jacobus almost got tangled in a huge electric fan. They were bound for Los Angeles and a brother-in-law's dairy farm-"to find a good future for the children." A newsman asked Mrs. van der Dussen if such a future could not be found in Europe? The stout Dutch woman shrugged, moved her hand...
...victory in 1944, but he was too predictably dull; Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings stood too far to the political right; New York's ex-Senator Jim Mead had been beaten to a frazzle by Tom Dewey last November; and New York's ex-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was just a little too unpredictable. New York's present Mayor Bill O'Dwyer fitted a lot of the requirements, but he is constitutionally ineligible, since he was born in Eire...
...Tokyo, Reynolds grandiloquently announced that he was taking over the controls. But when the plane came into LaGuardia Field, Pilot Odom, red-eyed and dog-tired, was still in the pilot's seat. He had flown round the world in 78 hours and 55 minutes. More remarkable, the plane was forced to fly 20,000 miles, some 5,000 miles more than Hughes, because Reynolds had not been able to get permission to fly over Russia...