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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Gladewater, Tex. one night last week, a 300-ft. mushroom of smoke and flame hung in the sky, casting dull yellow highlights on the charred boles of nearby pine trees, lighting the sweaty faces of many men. Sinclair Oil Co.'s No. 1 Cole well had gushed in, caught fire, killed nine workmen, belched flame for eight days (TIME, May 11). Suddenly came an ear-splitting explosion heard 15 mi. away in Longview. The fiery mushroom lost its stem, swirled up into the night, vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: At Gladewater (Cont'd) | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...windswept dunes at the cape. There were gathered 10,000 people, including Governor Pollard of Virginia and Episcopal Bishop Arthur C. Thomson. Great black clouds whipped by a strong wind massed overhead. The President took his place in the open grandstand. Angry lightning glittered across the sky. The singing of "America" was accompanied by the boom of thunder. The wind rose to a shriek. "Our Father Who art in Heaven," began Bishop Thomson as the first splatter of rain fell into the crowd. Before he finished the prayer the heavens had flooded the earth. The crowd broke and ran. President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Caught on a Cape | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...been expected, it was largely a "light-plane show," about half the planes on display falling into the price range between $1,000 and $3,000. Notable among the "flivver planes" were Stout's Sky Car (TIME, April 13), the Buhl Bull Pup, Curtiss-Wright Junior, the Aeronca and the Heath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Show | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...nearly 100 members of the House. At Christ Church, too small for everybody, Bishop Coadjutor Henry Wise Hobson conducted the brief Episcopal service. At Spring Grove cemetery near the Longworth shaft of granite the Speaker was laid away in the ground while an airplane etched against a very blue sky dropped roses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Death of a Speaker | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...tumult had subsided on his return from Paris; I've heard it from each of you, and yesterday Lindbergh and I toyed with it-a crossing at 25,000 feet; far above an unfriendly ocean; at 300 miles an hour; no fog, no ice. and a glorious sky overhead-well, not yet, but we hope, soon!" The flyers who lauded Dr. Kimball were well aware that his service to them was no simple business of glancing at the sky, reading a barometer and delivering a glib verdict of "go" or "stay." He dislikes the notion that he issues categorical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Prophet With Honor | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

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