Word: mishap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stop on its belly. This time the passengers, 21 of them, were plain scared, thoroughly shaken up. Imperial imperturbably grounded the 234-mile-an-hour ships to get the bugs out of the landing gear. At week's end the ships were restored to service. The mishap, said bland Imperial, was "due to the unusual state ol the airdrome surface, not to a mechanical defect." Nineteen-year-old Croydon is one of the oldest and best-tended air fields on earth...
...East, the Middle West and the Southwest, settling like flocks of gulls on Florida's sands. By the meet's end most of the stragglers had joined the first 325. Of the rest, forced down en route by weather, low fuel or motor trouble, none suffered serious mishap...
...previous spending programs had not "failed" but had rather been impeded by faulty business and economic methods. This time, said the President, means would be found to prevent unabsorbed inventories and unjustifiably high prices from, in effect, "running away with the ball." To find means to prevent such a mishap was the prime purpose of the antimonopoly investigation he had already recommended for Congressional consideration...
...airliner's reputation for safety means as much to an airline as an only daughter's reputation means to a mother. Every line talks proudly & loudly of impressive passenger mileages without mishap. DC-4's chief safety device is its four engines, developing 5,600 h.p., powerful enough so that any two, even two on the same side, will keep it flying at 7,000 ft., any three will carry the plane 5,000 feet above the highest mountain in the U. S. Furthermore, if one engine fails on takeoff (this possibility has given nightmares to many...
Early in the season as it is, both teams appear to be in top shape. Harvard's only serious mishap so far has been sprinter Torbert MacDonald who was expected to break up the Blue sprint formation. There are reports, also, that Nicky Kerr of Yale pulled a muscle in the hundred at the Penn relays, but Millet and Burlingame will still display the teeth for the Bulldog...