Word: planes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...funeral of Rita Guay in Quebec three weeks ago, no one mourned more demonstratively than her husband Albert. Rita had died in the Quebec Airways plane crash on Sept. 9 which killed 23 people, including three top executives of the Kennecott Copper Corp...
...Heavy Package. It had been a sharp and speedy investigation that brought Albert Guay before the bar. Five days after the crash a coroner's jury, which had studied reports on the broken wreckage of the unburned plane, blamed the disaster on a "mysterious explosion in a forward luggage compartment." Company investigators and local police were already on the job. The Mounties moved in. An airport clerk had reported that all packages but one aboard the DC-3 had been shipped by well-known shippers. The exception was checked...
Just before the plane took off from Quebec City, an excited woman had arrived at the field by taxi. She had a package which was suspiciously overweight for its size, but with the plane already warming up, the clerk rushed it aboard. The package was addressed to a Mr. Larouche at Baie Comeau. Mr. Larouche, it turned out, did not exist...
Sixteen minutes later the plane exploded and crashed at Sault au Cochon, 90 minutes before its arrival at Baie Comeau, where the package would have been taken...
...masterful man, to whom she had always given obedience and respect, but never true love. But when chubby, balding Director Rossellini came to Hollywood with a movie in mind, Ingrid was thrilled at the very idea of working for him. It was not until he met her at the plane in Rome that she "realized it was Roberto, the man, who had inspired her . . ." Now she did not intend to return to the U.S. until she could come back as Mrs. Rossellini. To Hearst's Hollywood Gossipist Louella Parsons, McDonald confided that Ingrid was ready to give Husband Peter...