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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey, cloudy sky the Esa zoomed down over the S. S. Pennland, 395 mi. east of Halifax. It had taken 25 hr. to come this far. Observers estimated that bad weather had cut down the flyers' speed to 80 m. p. h.-30 m. p. h. less than the economical cruising speed of their plane. Also, the length of time indicated they were flying blind. Their compasses must'have gone wrong; they carried no radio. But they seemed unconcerned, headed for fog-bound Newfoundland...
From 1921 through 1926 there was no need for such action. The Florida real estate boom sent the road's revenues sky-rocketing to such a degree that earnings of over $10 a share were shown on the common stock in 1925. But the boom was indirectly the undoing of the company. Increased traffic could not be moved on the single-track line. To provide funds for double tracking and other expansion the road sold $45,000,000 of 5%, bonds during 1924, 1925 and 1926. The bonds were underwritten by an imposing group headed by J. P. Morgan...
Next day nine Marine planes were doing "coiled-spring" loops in single file across the sky. Suddenly there was a terrific crash, loudly audible to the crowd 2,000 ft. below. Two planes, piloted by Lieuts. L. H. ("Sandy") Sanderson and W. O. Brice, had collided. As their planes fell, the crowd heard Lieut. Emile Chourre. standing before a microphone on the field, calmly broadcast the event as if it were part of the entertainment. Said he: "Keep your seats everybody and watch for the boys to come out. Two of them will shortly join the Caterpillar Club. Here they...
Just before the next dawn a farmer, looking out of his window some ten miles from Ypsilanti, beheld a bright light against the hooded sky. Hurrying across fields to a lonely road he found a car in flames. In the car were the incinerated bodies of Thomas Wheatley, Harry Lore, Vivian Gold, Anna May Harrison. On the running board, fenders, bumpers of the car were splashes of blood. A bloody wrench lay in the road. Officers who removed the bodies after the fire had died found two bullet holes in Lore, discovered the skulls of the other three had been...
Down out of the sky upon Central Airport at Moscow plunked a bewildered hen and a dozen eggs. Neither the hen nor any of the eggs was damaged. Their fall, from an airplane 3,300 ft. high, was a demonstration of a new parachute designed by Soviet experts. Developed to support only small loads, the chute was of conventional design, but with a rubber hood affixed over its basket. The hood fills with air and expands in descent, decreasing the rate of fall to about 16.4 ft. per sec. (Ordinary rate of fall of U. S. made parachutes with...