Word: bails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost four years since Army Test Pilot Lieut. Ben Kelsey flew the first P-38 across the continent in a near-record 7¾ hours' flying time, only to crash when one of the plane's engines conked out at Mitchel Field, N.Y. Before pilots learned to bail out by diving the plane and somersaulting forward, some had their legs sliced off by the P-38's tailpiece when they jumped. In high altitudes the complex electric system went haywire and pilots considered themselves lucky if they got home on one engine. Veteran pilots shook their heads...
Colin Kelly was the 19th's first hero. His crew managed to bail out, but Captain Kelly's body was found 50 feet from his plane, his parachute half opened...
...raids last June the eleven Negroes were picked up as "material witnesses," intimidated into signing prepared statements. Their bail was set at $5,000, which none, of course, could meet. That was the last anyone except the jail guards saw of them until last week when they appeared briefly at a hearing at which Donovan sought to have his indictment quashed. Some testified they were just standing around and watching the raid when they were arrested. After the hearing, the bewildered Negroes were sent back to jail. There they remained, still incommunicado; finally a Federal judge stepped in this week...
...cruising smoothly ahead, followed by another twin-motored plane. Spotter Martin saw the trailing plane veer off to the side, then come back toward the transport at an angle. Suddenly "they looked like one plane, they were so close." Sky-watching citizens in Palm Springs thought they saw someone bail out in a parachute. But what they saw was the transport's tail assembly. Then the airliner screamed crazily earthward, careened into a mountainside. The wreckage burned for five hours; the three crew members and nine passengers, including Songwriter Ralph Rainger (Moanin' Low, Love in Bloom), were dead...
Rugged, ambitious Earl Warren made his reputation as the crusading district attorney of Alameda County (Oakland, Berkeley and the East Bay waterfront). There, in 13 years, he waged campaigns against bail-bond brokers, liquor-law violators, cleaning & dyeing racketeers, grafting politicians and labor "goon squads...