Word: saugus
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...months ago by United Air Lines on its busiest run-the two-hour hop between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Over this run it had flown as many as 30 ships a day for seven years without accident until last December when a Boeing bashed into a hill near Saugus, killed twelve (TIME, Jan. 11). For the last three years United has used only Boeings on this mountainous jump. When it bought Douglases last autumn, it started a series of exhaustive tests to accustom its pilots to the different planes. Pilots had to test-fly under all conditions...
Presently the weather grew thick. Pilot Lewis radioed ahead for instructions, was told to come in on the Saugus radio beam. Pilot Lewis flew on through a heavy snow storm, gradually "letting down" from 7,000 ft. At 11:05 he radioed: "Coming down to localizer [beam] at field." He was 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...
...killed instantly. Soapy Blom saw the crash coming, for the ignition was turned off, preventing fire. Broken watches indicated that the crash occurred at 7:38. Three investigations immediately began hunting the cause with little hope of success. Pilot Blom was only five miles from the emergency field at Saugus and only two ridges away from the San Fernando Valley. Apparently he either lost his way or badly misgauged his altitude. Unable to explain why he should have done either, United could only point out that it was the line's first accident in 13 months, during which...
...found itself embarrassed by the State truancy law. By last week 28 Witnesses of Jehovah had popped up in U. S. public schools. In Lynn aging Cora Foster, who had taught in local schools for 40 years, faced dismissal after confessing that she, too, was a Witness. In nearby Saugus seven young Witnesses were expelled. In Weymouth high school Witnesses Charles & Harold Newcomb, who claim to be descendants of Betsy Ross, staged a sympathy strike against "the Devil's emblem." In Norwalk. Conn., a 13-year-old Witness was barred from all school activities except classes. Suspended from...
...fact that four cadets from the German training ship "Karisruhe" were to dine in Lowell House last night so incensed a few well meaning but misguided pacifists that they planned to stage an audible protest in the form of a Saugus cheer. Word of this nefarious plot reached the ears of a group, who, determined that the Fair Name of Harvard hospitality be unsmirched, constituted themselves a reception committee for Herr Hitler's not so loyal opposition. News of this apparently reached the hecklers, for, upon assembling at the door to the dining room, they detached a scout to reconnoiter...