Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane slid along the surface of the Solent until it was going about 200 m.p.h. It cleared the water for a second and then dropped back to it. A tower of spray shot up. The S-6 bounced 40 feet in the air and then plunged down into the Solent, nose first. When Lieut. Brinton's fellow officers reached the ship in a speedboat, it had risen again, upside down, with wings and tail torn off. The wreckage was towed ashore and the dead body of Lieut. Brinton removed from the tail of the fuselage, where the 'shock...
...taking their bride to Cleveland. Last week the first special trainload of Erie employes and families chuffed out of New York bound for the road's new headquarters in Cleveland (which will not, for the present at least, be located in the Van Sweringen's skyscraping Terminal Tower). All through August more special trains will chuff away with more Erie families, until by the end of the month the 1,000-odd inhabitants of the Erie's New York office will all be installed in Cleveland. Wall Street oldsters recalled that the last time the Erie moved...
Cleveland music-lovers and city-boosters looked into the sky one afternoon last week for a portent. Suddenly from the Union Terminal Tower a great white banner with a diagonal red stripe was flung to the breeze. The weather that evening would be fine. The Opera...
...breathless question was asked and left unanswered last week in sweltering official Ottawa: "Can the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons arrest a Senator of the Dominion and lock him up in the Tower of Parliament?"* Reason such an arrest seemed likely was that Senator Wilfred Laurier McDougald of Montreal had refused to appear before a Committee of the House and was considered in contempt of Parliament...
...OnIy Canadian ever confined to the Tower was R. C. Miller, no Government official but onetime president of Diamond Light & Heating Co. Ltd. He was condemned for contempt of Parliament...