Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheels through a tree, the XP-38, with right engine throttled, slammed into the sand bunker of a golf course, came to a stop with her right wing torn off, her props hopelessly snaggled, her fuselage twisted (see cut). A passing motorist helped dazed Ben Kelsey from the wreck. He had been only slightly...
...seconds before flames surrounded the wreck something happened which soon made more news than the crash. Three employes of the nearby plant of North American Aviation saw an injured man in the wreck, dragged him out. The Douglas company identified the passenger as "Smithin, a mechanic." But reporters learned at Santa Monica Hospital that the man with a broken leg, wrenched back and battered head was in fact Captain Paul Chemidlin, a French military observer...
...reason for the sharp decline in WPA rolls since November's elections, and thereby gave them an argument against a big new WPA fund. Meanwhile, Senators studied a report by a special committee under South Carolina's Byrnes which, if translated into law, would effectively wreck WPA as a permanent, billion-dollar political machine...
Hume hired a truck to haul the wreck back to the States at a cost of $7.50. Back home he sold the remains...
...accent; that Alice Brady, Virginia Bruce, Miriam Hopkins, Richard Dix. June Lang and Oliver Hardy were not much better than ingredients in a huge Thanksgiving Barbecue. In the press, pictures of these notables were accompanied by such headlines as FOREST FIRES RAZE FILM COLONY HOMES, and FLAMES WRECK HOMES OF STARS; TOWNS IN PERIL...