Word: crashed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This week, Ella's journalistic parents solve the problem: husband Patches is coldly killed off in a plane crash. Lamented Cartoonist Plumb: "I really hated to see Patches get killed, but I had to dispose of him some...
Some critics maintain he never made it. They consider that Waugh's green seas and white breakers lack the seasick lift and crash of the real thing, that his notion of daylight was a drab one, and that his wet brown rocks might as well have been chocolate ice cream. The public disagrees...
...young Navy officer on duty more than 300 miles away last week walked off with the Republican nomination to Congress from Massachusetts' Sixth District. Lieut. Commander William H. Bates, U.S.N., was running for the seat his father held until his death in the Eastern Air Lines plane crash over Washington National Airport last November. Candidate Bates, 32, a football star at Brown and a Navy veteran of the Pacific, ran afoul of Navy regulations against politicking and had to stick to his job as ships' service officer, but he had the doorbell-ringing help of women...
...until last week did the astounding truth about the obscure Swiss company come out. Actually, Leader, A.G. owned the whole foreign empire of Czechoslovakia's shoe king, Thomas Bata, which was left when he died in an airplane crash in 1932. Leader's entire stock consisted of the 2,000 shares, issued merely to "bearer." Since the bearer had been Muska, he technically controlled Leader...
Turtles & Towboats. The Department of Commerce Building (sometimes called "Hoover's Folly" after the ex-Secretary who laid its cornerstone four months before the 1929 crash) is a wondrously massive seven-story limestone, granite and marble pile with 3,311 rooms and 5,200 windows, covering three full city blocks. From its-vast collection of books and reports, U.S. citizens can learn how to run a pants cleaning shop or whether there is a market for hookah pipes in Nicaragua. Its archives contain patents for ornithopters (beating-wing flying machines) and a "pedal calorenticator" (a flexible rubber tube reaching...