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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corps, B-17s have flown about 8,000,000 miles, made many a long hop, without a single crash, through three and a half years. Up to last week most serious damage any of the big fellows had had was a buckled landing gear. Last week the spell was broken. Flying toward the mist-shrouded San Jacinto Mountains, 20 miles southeast of Riverside, Calif., a B-17 was heard to hiccough, splutter. Then there was an explosive crash. To death against a mountainside had ridden an Army B-17 crew, three officers, three enlisted men. Meantime the military flying services...
Meteorologists explained that a low pressure area trapped over southern New Mexico by a high pressure to the north and northeast caused the storm last week. Temperature two degrees higher would have stopped the ice. A high wind would have broken the spell. But for 48 hours nothing happened. The region seemed deserted. An airline pilot making the first flight over the Panhandle two days after the storm reported that there were no signs of life, no cars on the highways and no trains seen operating, only a few lights showing in Amarillo's business district...
Captain D. B. (Blind Dave) Stearns incapacity, a bad turn in the weather and a fifth columnist named Bill from Princeton combined Saturday morning to spell disaster for the Crimson's touch football team...
...help it," the registrant mumbled. "First name's Ignatius. Never could spell...
...likeness of a sugary, $18-a-week stenographer. A good dramatist, Sturges kept his characters credible by the simple but neglected technique of letting them act like people. For instance, when the Maxford House president is writing out Powell's contest check, he pauses to ask: "Do you spell your name...