Word: lineral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even before publicity-minded Senator Copeland, chairman of the Senate sub-committee on air safety, jumped into headlines insisting that "fullest knowledge" be given the public of last fortnight's United Air Liner crash in Utah (TIME, Oct. 25), four experts of the Bureau of Air Commerce with three assistants were converging on the scene of the wreck. Chairman of the investigating committee, Milton C. Foster, delayed proceedings two days by traveling to Utah by Pullman. Official findings are not likely to be released for many weeks, but last week the known facts of the accident were...
...miles off its course-to the left-wrecked on a snowcovered side of a mountain (see cut), both engines and 18 occupants flung far ahead of the ship, Only one passenger tangled in the smashed plane. Time of the crash was fixed at 8:51 p.m. which with the liner's position when found, indicated that the pilot had proceeded in a direct line at full speed to the point where he crashed, that he apparently had perfect confidence he was on his course. His altitude was 10,000 feet, the approved height on his normal course. Two trappers...
When the Holland-America liner Veendam arrived in the U. S., photographers spotted one Dr. Albert Einstein Jr., a construction engineer in Switzerland. Because he had a famed name they snapped him roundly, then asked, "Are you any relative of Professor Einstein of Princeton?" "Ja," replied Dr. Einstein Jr., "son." A moment later Father Einstein arrived to greet his relative...
...when he was making glowing headlines far himself as the Senate's Great Investigator, Mr. Justice Hugo LaFayette Black, whom newspaper investigation had just revealed as a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. was slipping home from Europe as quietly as possible on the Baltimore Mail Liner City of Norfolk instead of sailing into New York Harbor on the United States Liner Manhattan as he had previously planned...
...boatload of reporters had been out all night in a motor launch named Pirate just in case the City of Norfolk suddenly dropped Mr. Justice Black before docking at Norfolk. Only result of this precaution, as it turned out, was that the Pirate'?, bedraggled crew boarded the liner a little later than the landlubbing newsmen who had stayed ashore...