Word: sos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When was the SOS sent...
...stood by. In the torrid darkness some of his batteries exploded, smoke dazed him. He thought: "If I am supposed to be dying it doesn't hurt very much. . . . I'm just getting sleepy." On his second trip from the bridge, Assistant Alagna brought authority for the SOS. He helped Rogers to safety...
When the Morro Castle's SOS flashed into Manhattan, weather along the coast was vile. The average commercial airplane pilot would have hesitated long before flying a cameraman offshore in the dark, wind, and rain. But International and Acme had classified lists of pilots, including certain ones who had the equipment and the courage to fly through anything. At about 7 a. m. two such pilots took off from New York with International and Acme cameramen, returned three hours later within five minutes of each other, with magnificent pictures of the burning vessel. Somehow AP was left...
...Morro Castle's neighborhood: "Was a nearby ship afire?" A pillar of flame could be seen. But it was not until 3:25 that Alagna could fight his way back through the flames with authority from Captain Warms, desperate on the bridge, to send out the dread SOS. "Di-di-di-da-da-da-di-di-di! The flames are under the radio room. KGYO. KGYO 20 miles south of Scotland Light . . . SOS. SOS, Di-di-di-da-da-da-di-di-di. . . . Can't hold out much longer. . . ." Blind, almost knocked out by the bitter smoke. "Sparks" Rogers...
...from Hour-Havenne, Belgium one dawn last week rose Stratonauts Max Cosyns and Neere van der Elst, soared nearly ten miles, broke no records, obtained scientific data, sent out an SOS when their wireless developed defects, scared half the world into thinking they were dead, drifted 1,100 mi. in 14 hr. across five countries, landed safe & sound at Zinovlje, Jugoslavia...