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...left of the $320,000 Samoan Clipper 14 miles northwest of Pago Pago-a drawer, pieces of a coat, pages of the engineering log, part of the navigating desk, a pair of trousers. The debris, blown to bits, riddled with holes and imbedded with duralumin powder indicated a terrific mid-air explosion with instant death to all on board and immediate sinking of the ship's shattered hull in water a mile deep and alive with sharks. One was caught nearby a few days later with a man's bones in his belly. Said Avocet's Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: First & Last | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...TIME'S ear, a trimotored airplane, colliding with a pole, breaking apart in mid-air and striking the ground, makes noise. As near as TIME and the English alphabet could catch the sound, it was whop, crack and smash. Do other readers agree with Writer de Lany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 13, 1937 | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...vast, globular corona reaching out from the sun to a depth about equal to its diameter (864,100 miles) in which the vivid coronal streamers commonly pictured formed a bright, irregular core. The globular corona had been photographed before but these swiftly-taken candid camera shots made in mid-air were its best portraits to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lens Work | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...inside the Chevrolet plant talking to his city editor when rioting started. Tear and nausea gas clouds rolled in on him as he continued phoning his story, coughing and vomiting. Once he looked up to see a striker coming at him with a club. Girardin stopped the club in mid-air with a "Hello Tony." Most thoughtful Labor expert to emerge in Detroit has been lanky, young, bespectacled Reporter Archie Walter Robinson of the News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Labor Newshawks | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...dinner the conversation was as varied as the conversants. Shirley Temple and the Supreme Court; "Last Year's Kisses" and Professor So-and-So; the tax on undistributed corporate earnings and the virtues of Pine Manor; all met in mid-air with remarkable harmony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/27/1937 | See Source »

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