Word: rescuers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coming over from the German side. She says: "Les Alle-magnes?c'est impossible!" The Germans pile out of trucks, go down the shaft with gas masks. A French miner, muddled by fear and dazed by gas, when he sees someone crawling toward him in a mask mistakes his rescuer for a German soldier. Director Pabst never stops emphasizing his theme?that for miners, gas and war, not each other, are common enemies? but he does it with a photographic vigor that makes Kameradschaft resemble a brilliant newsreel much more than a dramatized tract. The picture has been successful abroad...
Seldom have so many famed flyers gathered together as in a banquet room of Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt one night last week. There were bronzed "Lon" Yancey, meek-looking Clarence Chamberlin, debonair Col. Fitzmaurice and his rescuer, sturdy Bernt Balchen, nearly bursting out of a tight dinner jacket. There were beauteous Ruth Elder Camp, mop-headed Amelia Earhart Putnam, and the recluse Lindbergh; Armand Loti of the Yellow Bird who came from France to be present that night; Rear Admiral Byrd, Frank Courtney, Harry Connor. (Brock & Schlee, too, would have been there had they not been forced down flying...
...Sweden's Capt. Einar-Paal Lundborg, actual rescuer of Nobile, was killed in a crash last month (TIME...
...member of the American Mining & Metallurgical Engineers, the Western Society of Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geological Society to which he sent greetings at their last meeting (TIME, Jan. 12); he has received at the White House Einar Paul Lundborg, rescuer of Umberto Nobile, Dr. Hugo Eckener, Capt. Lewis A. Yancey, U. S. to Rome flyer, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Capt. Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte. He has approved Government help given to scientific institutions, Smithsonian Institution, etc.; in 1929 he appointed 17 delegates to the World Engineering Congress, Tokyo; he spoke...
Captain Spencer T. S. MacNeill of the Mauretania and Captain George Fried, famed rescuer, of the America went to rescue the sinking Swedish freighter Ovidia in mid-Atlantic. The Mauretania arrived, took off the crew; the America steamed up two hours afterward. Said Captain MacNeill: "She stood by, but I don't know why. The Manretania can do anything the America can." Commented Captain Fried: "I think it is much better to act promptly. . . . and hold discussions about it afterward...