Word: mishaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is always at least one serious mishap in the Harmsworth Cup races. It was almost a relief to the crowd of 325,000, in boats and grandstands on the banks of the St. Clair River near Marine City, Mich., when the mishap came so early last week. Just before the race, Horace E. Dodge decided to enter his three- year-old Delphine V, rebuilt for a speed of 85 m.p.h., to help Gar Wood's Miss America X, which has gone 124 m.p.h., defend the Cup against this year's British challenger, Hubert Scott-Paine...
...expedition, operating from the sturdy little baseship Gustav Holm, anchored just under the 80th parallel, has been exploring northern Greenland by air for two years. Two nights on the same day last week brought the total distance covered up to more than 25,000 mi. without one mishap. The other flight was westward, over the Northeast Foreland lip to Peary Land. It discovered that a mountain range beginning at a deepcut mouth, Denmark Fjord, runs out on the lip. Skimming over vast desolate plains lying between this range and the great inland mountain chain. Dr. Koch concluded that their geological...
...years later (1824) a pre-nuptial flight ended in tragedy. The English aeronaut Thomas Harris took his fiancee up in a balloon from Vauxhall, London. After getting altitude he opened a hydrogen valve, to hover in the skies with his lady. Then occurred the same mishap as befell Commander Settle and his stratosphere balloon over Chicago last fortnight. The valve refused to close again, down came the balloon. Aeronaut Harris dumped all ballast, threw overboard his own clothing and even his fiancee's. Still the balloon plunged downward. Grimly Harris kissed his companion goodbye, then jumped to his death...
...Chicago when, at the Italo-American dinner, the toastmaster called the roll of Balbo's crew. Each man in turn arose to applause, answered "Present." At the end of the list the speaker called "Sergeant Ugo Quintavalle." (Sergeant Quintavalle had been killed at Amsterdam in the only mishap of the expedition.) Instantly 96 sturdy blackshirts jumped to their feet, chins held high, and chorused "Present." Also sad was the case of a lonely ground crew near Julienehaab. Greenland. For weeks they had waited there to give service to Balbo's planes in case they should choose to land...
...oysters. They encounter surprisingly mild adventures when stranded on a cannibal island. The Wings also discovered a chipper little urchin called Ko-Hai. Ko-Hai was foolish enough (in Lori Bara's little story) to be bitten to death by a shark. After his funeral, Ahmang avenges this mishap by killing the shark with a knife. Samarang is a silent picture, with musical accompaniment. It is pleasing scenically and photographically. In the inevitable fight-between an octopus and a shark-the shark wins. The stagiest shot is the one that was really most dangerous to make-a python coiling...