Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since that time ten Army flyers have lost their lives. ... I appreciate. . . that almost every part of the country has been visited during this period by snow, fog and storms, and that serious accidents, taking even more lives, have occurred at the same time in passenger and commercial aviation...
...back to his job. For fellow passengers he had a Manhattan advertising man and an Ohio sanitary engineer. Pilot Walter Hallgren had made the St. Louis-Chicago run for six years and was approaching his millionth flight mile. After the plane had bored 100 mi. into Illinois, thick, wet snow began to envelop it. The Chicago radio operator heard its pilot report: "Visibility one-eighth mile, ceiling 500 ft., ice forming on wings and tail." Hallgren did not hear Chicago order him to turn back to St. Louis. He felt his plane settling groggily, looked for a landing place. When...
...flashlight beam danced on the snow as an excited farmer floundered toward the sound of a crash in his field near Petersburg, Ill. Etched out in the dark he found the wreckage half buried in snow, the four men all dead...
...grounds be covered o'er with ice and snow...
...Vagabond shifted his green bag to a more secure position and splashed forward through the gloom. There are, be thought, far too many Crazy Mary's in this world. There is also too much snow...