Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After cavorting aloft for almost half an hour, the new bomber whipped low over the airport, climbed again to 3,000 feet and soared along at 300 m.p.h. Test Pilot John Cable then apparently cut one motor to try a climb on half power. Instead of climbing the ship went into a spin. John Cable bailed out at 500 feet, pulled the ripcord of his parachute too late, died on the ground. In a parking lot less than 50 feet from his body, the bomber demolished nine automobiles before it stopped...
...early hours of the crucial Battle of Jutland in 1916 German salvos sent one British ship after another plunging to the bottom. Admiral Sir David Beatty, striding the bridge of the battle cruiser Lion, turned on a young flag officer, Alfred Ernie Montacute Chatfield, and remarked: "Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today...
Muddle No. 2: the complacency with which the ship's crew plowed on deeper into icing weather after they knew they were in trouble. Forty-nine minutes before she crashed, the Cavalier radioed that she might have to take the desperate expedient of landing in the open sea; 15 minutes before the landing she sent out an SOS. Yet she continued Bermuda-ward, made no effort to locate seagoing vessels near which she might land for quick rescue...
...life rafts on its Bermuda Clipper (total raft capacity: 40 persons), the Cavalier had none. When she began to sink, her eight passengers, her five crew members had to take to the water, hanging to six or seven buoyant seat packs, which had not been issued until after the ship struck. One man passenger, unable to swim, was struck by wreckage as he left the ship, and drowned. A steward, held in the terrified ring where the survivors hung around their seat cushions, finally lost his hold and was drowned...
...break. Brokers reported heavy liquidation from abroad. Acute weakness in foreign dollar issues led bond prices down. The Dutch guilder was weak. And, as always when Europe has the jitters, the heavy flow of gold to the U. S. quickened. In one day last week London arranged to ship...