Word: accidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aviation insurance includes, besides personal accident and life risks, risks against planes, cargoes, airports, public liability, passengers, employes, fires, windstorms, thefts. The usual life or accident policy generally forbids flying. Four Manhattan underwriters predominate in the nation's aviation insurance business-Aero Underwriters Corp., United States Aviation Underwriters, Wm...
Hair bedraggled, shoes unbuttoned, trousers unbelted, wild-eyed in a mauve pajama jacket, Morris Gest, theatre man (The Miracle), arrived in Denver in an automobile. Near Stratton, Col., a Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific train on which he was riding had plunged through a trestle into a flooded creek. Ten persons...
The Count & Countess Szechenyi enjoy a Washington popularity second only to that of the British Howards. Their summers alternate between Newport where the Countess's mother, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr., resides grandly at "The Breakers," and the Count's estates in Hungary. On his last trip home, the Count had...
Fifth Worst Accident's Cause. The cause of aviation's fifth worst heavier-than-air accident, the wreck of the Imperial Airways' City of Ottawa in the English Channel fortnight ago (TIME, July 1), was the splitting of two small connecting rod bolts. An inquiry board decided last week that...
In the interim. Fame had come to Floyd Dell. He had written some novels that sold [Moon Calf, The Briary Bush, This Mad Ideal]. Lately he biographed Upton Sinclair, the California liberty-shouter. The past winter the innocuous father farce Little Accident, based on his book The Unmarried Father, has...