Word: thunderstorms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Uiver left Amsterdam on a special Christmas flight to Java with three passengers, a crew of four, 54,000 pieces of mail. Between Cairo and Bagdad it encountered a violent thunderstorm, sent out an SOS. What happened to Uiver after that no man knows. When found, it was on its back, smashed to bits, burned to a crisp. Best guess was that Uiver had made an emergency landing at night, flipped over in a somersault and caught fire. Of 40 Douglases built to date, it was the first to crash...
Ohio, "Come thunderstorm, war or election, I always go to bed at 9:30 sharp, " said Ohio's small solemn Senator Simeon Davison Fess. And as the onetime chairman of the Republican National Committee slept, he was counted out of the Senate seat he has held since 1925 and Democrat Alvin Victor ("Vic") Donahey was counted in. "Vic" Donahey is the only man in Ohio's history to have served three straight terms as Governor. Though he beat one of the oldest of the Old Dealers, this tall husky 61-year-old Senator-elect was not an ardent...
...twice, wears glasses when she reads, usually goes to sleep at parties. Her husband is Harmon O. ("Ham") Nelson Jr., bandleader at Hollywood's Colony Club. They went to school together, met again at the 1932 Olympic Games. Davis joke: "Ham is a good egg." Born in a thunderstorm, Bette Davis now considers rainstorms lucky. She is 5 ft. 3 in. tall, weighs 106 Ib. Her figure is insured...
...dedicatory air meet had barely started when a howling thunderstorm broke, driving the crowd into nearby hangars and administration building, postponing the ceremonies. That disappointment was small, however, compared to the blow that fell next day, when all domestic airmail contracts were annulled. Shushan Airport's first big tenant was American Airways, which was expected to cancel its lease. Roared disappointed Col. Shushan: "New Orleans had just as well throw her field back into Lake Pontchartrain...
...thunderstorm over Charleston Bay from the Battery, a country store at Mars Bluff, S. C., old churches and older graveyards lent their bit to the production. In search of a house for the Connellys Director King and party visited Redcliffe, plantation home of the descendants of Senator James Henry ("Cotton is King") Hammond (1807-64) at Beech Island, S. C. across the Savannah River from Augusta, Ga. Noted were its enormous hall, its silver hardware, its fallen plaster, its air of dingy decay. Outside of Florence, S. C., Director King found the old Johnson plantation house which he had carefully...