Word: squalls
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...ever the Navy's great airship, the U. S. S. Macan, should be wrenched apart by a line squall as the Shenandoah was nine years ago or come to a catastrophic end in the sea as the Akron did last year, the officer who on the basis of past performance will have the best chance of survival is round-faced Lieut. Commander Herbert Vincent ("Doc") Wiley. "Doc" Wiley was aboard the Shenandoah when it broke over Ohio. "Doc" Wiley was aboard the Akron when it crashed off the New Jersey coast, the only officer to escape...
...picturesque Civil Guard marched glittering through the streets of Montevideo in uniforms dating from the War of Liberation from Spain (1810). Escorted by galloping lancers Dr. Gabriel Terra, heavyset, heavy-jowled President & Dictator, sped to open the Conference at 6 p. m. Alighting from their limousines in a sudden squall of wind and rain, delegates of 21 American nations clutched their silk hats and fled with flapping coattails up the marble steps of Uruguay's Legislative Palace to take refuge from the weather in its high-domed, multi-marbled and scarlet-trimmed Congressional Chamber. In the excitement the delegates...
...President Daniel C. Mulloney of defunct Federal National Bank, three presidents of affiliated banks and the treasurer of still another for looting their institutions of a total estimated at $2,000,000. Federal National and eight affiliated banks, with total deposits of $60,000,000, crashed in the line-squall of banking failures that tore through New England late...
...hour and 25 minutes behind schedule. Pilot Noel B. Evans, Wartime flyer, of Yarney Speed Lines was bumping his way through a rain squall southeast of San Francisco one night last week. Behind him, in the Lockheed's darkened cabin, sat two nervous passengers taken aboard that afternoon in Los Angeles: a Mr. Herman Brown and a Mrs. Lavelle Lodwick of Hollywood. Driving rain beaded the cabin windows opaquely as the pilot nosed down over suburbs south of Oakland. He was presumably looking for an emergency landing field on which to bring his passengers to safety. Instead, he brought...
Last week the Southern Cross VI was hobbling along near Aneityum in the New Hebrides (midway between Australia and the Fijis). A sudden squall blew up. dashed the ship on a coral reef. She began to sink. Captain A. M. Stanton had to get his men ashore. First the crew tried to lower a boat. Monster waves lashed it, smashed it to bits. When a second attempt failed, an officer took a line in his teeth, dived into the swirling sea. He swam for half an hour, at last reached the beach 150 yd. away, crawled up cut and bleeding...