Word: plane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left . . . Traffic, Eastern DC-4 on final approach and below!" The P-38 barreled on toward destruction. Not until the last seconds did Tigner switch back to the DC-4's channel (its pilot could not hear his talk to the fighter, had no means of knowing a plane was bearing down on him from above) and order: "Turn left! P-38 is traffic!" The big plane began to turn...
...Innocent? When his denial went unnoticed, Rader took another step: he started perjury proceedings against Witness Hewitt. But while a deputy prosecutor cooled his heels outside the offices of the Canwell committee (named for ex-State Representative Albert F. Canwell), Hewitt was packed aboard a plane for New York. There, a Bronx court refused to extradite him. Though Rader continued to teach at the University of Washington, his reputation was blasted...
Died. Ginette Neveu, 30, brilliant Paris-born violinist who was bravoed by critics after her Manhattan appearance two years ago; in a plane crash; in Sao Miguel, Azores (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Died. Marcel Cerdan, 33, Algerian-born French boxer, former (1948-49) middleweight champion of the world; in a plane crash; in Sao Miguel, Azores (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Died. Henry L. Straus, 53, president of Tropical Park race track since 1941; in a private-plane crash; near Port Deposit, Md. Turfman Straus made a fortune in royalties out of his invention, the American totalizator, a complicated (1,500,000 moving parts) electrical device which automatically calculates the odds in pari-mutuel betting...