Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judge Norris wished to be a member of the Committee on Judiciary, and for some reason this ambition flamed mountain-high in him and became his consuming passion. Uncle Joe, in spite of my efforts to persuade him, steadfastly refused to name Norris, [to the Senate Judiciary Committee] a man of pugnacious qualities, who never ceased to fight until he had accomplished his purpose regardless of what methods he was compelled to employ to do so. ... Seconded by Victor Murdock, of Kansas, likewise thwarted in his overweening desire to be placed on the Appropriations Committee, and Augustus P. Gardner...
...airport no matter how dirty the weather. TWA's Chief Pilot O. W. Coyle took off with a party to prove it. With the cockpit of his big Douglas hooded, he climbed swiftly up through the murk in the deep San Fernando Valley, circled away over the wrinkled mountains which have given the region the name of "the worst flying country in the U. S." Time & again Pilot Coyle intentionally got lost. Each time he winged unerringly back to the field. Just as he was doing so the last time, Pilot William W. Lewis of the Western Air Express...
...then some ten miles from Burbank and only ten from the spot where a United Airliner smashed fortnight ago with death to twelve (TIME, Jan. 11). At that point he got off the beam, began circling to pick it up. Suddenly, out of the haze loomed a mountain. It was too late to clear it. With quick skill, Pilot Lewis cut his engines, pulled up the Boeing's nose, pancaked...
...Then there was a terrible crash. My seat belt kept me in my seat. I didn't lose consciousness, but my leg and side hurt. I guess I was about the only one that wasn't knocked out." Passenger Robinson set off alone down the snow-spattered mountain, managed to stagger four miles to the Olive View Sanitarium despite a broken ankle. Inmates there had heard the impact and screams of the victims borne by the wind, had already given the alarm...
...passengers, all but two of whom were severely injured, one dead. Martin Johnson, with both jaws broken, skull cracked, a shattered hip and internal wounds, became hysterical with pain. Osa, with leg broken and a concussion, was able only to wipe his face. Rescuers struggling up the mountain heard his screams afar. The plane was almost intact, with one motor torn loose. Nearby was a small fire lookout station. There for nearly ten hours the injured lay before they could be carried down the precipitous slope. Next morning Martin Johnson died. At week's end two other passengers...