Word: mishaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mishap of the McNutt homecoming occurred in San Francisco when he and his administrative assistant, Wayne Coy, asked for an Army plane to fly them as far as Denver. Three days later, when it was revealed that their pilot. Colonel Davenport Johnson, had been transferred from Hamilton Field to second in command at the Air Corps Technical School at Chanute Field, 111., the War Department maintained it was a "routine" change but reporters jumped to the fairly natural conclusion: that the Administration intended to snub Mr. McNutt...
...kill" was almost too literal but poetic justice must be served--two yards from the tape, as Lightbody drew up even with his opponent, Millet stumbled and fell in a sprawl on the pock-marked boards. The time was 3:32, not brilliant because of the mishap in the first quarter...
Heretofore when the cinema has chosen subsea subjects, it has usually focused on a stricken boat on the seafloor, has peered in at anguished men gasping for air, sweating great globules of mineral oil (which looks more sweaty than sweat). The undersea mishap that climaxes Submarine D-1 is taken in a reassuringly even stride. Under the unruffled direction of Lieut. Commander Matthews (George Brent), everything goes like clockwork. In the equalizing chamber the crew stands chattering about horseraces and San Diego girls while water creeps up to their waists, submerges the lower end of the tubular escape hatch. Presently...
...P.A.A.'s safety record with its Clippers is almost perfect: only three deaths are charged against it. That accident occurred last year when a Clipper sideswiped a launch while taking off from Trinidad's Port-of-Spain harbor, filled with water (TIME, April 20, 1936). Even that mishap was more like a collision between surface craft than the sort of accident that commonly befalls airplanes. The record of P.A.G., which flies the difficult South American overland routes, is less excellent but still good: 32 lives have been lost in nine years of operation covering 40,000,000 passenger...
...manager of the Detroit Tigers. His condition, concussion of the brain and a triple skull fracture, was the result of being hit on the head by a baseball thrown by Pitcher Irving ("Bump") Hadley of the New York Yankees. Pitcher Hadley had hit Catcher Cochrane accidentally. Nonetheless, the mishap, which baseball experts predicted would end both Catcher Cochrane's playing career and the chances of the Tigers to win the American League pennant this season, revived an uproar about "bean balls" which has been a feature of the 1937 major-league baseball season...