Word: crashed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...struck the plane with a giant hammer." Both sides of the plane burst open just forward of the tail surface, and the wind began to roar through the two jagged holes (the larger, 9 by 4 ft.). A French student prudently untied his shoelaces in preparation for an ocean crash landing...
Captain Harvey had turned about and was headed back toward London. He radioed that his craft had been struck by lightning, told the Northolt emergency crew to stand by for a crash landing. Pilot Harvey knew he was taking on a large order. The explosion had jammed his rudder in central position. He had only slight control of his tail elevators. Harvey was going to try to land on what control he could get from his engines and wing ailerons...
...many years ago Wall Street had written off Cities Service, the $1.2 billion hodgepodge of oil and utility companies put together by the late Henry L. Doherty. In a lusty expansion, Doherty had plunged the company $500 million into debt on the eve of the 1929 crash. By 1935, when the Holding Company Act threatened to break up the electrical utilities which formed the empire's backbone, Cities Service common stock had plummeted to 75? from the 1929 high...
...broken ribs and a broken leg; one eyelid had virtually been torn away. Gasoline dripped steadily. He called reassurance to the living (seven were dead), sent some of the walking injured for help, and yelled warnings against lighting matches. When he got to a hospital, nine hours after the crash, he felt a familiar languor-what he calls the "warm, soft sensation of death...
...vivacious, gay and hot-tempered (he once threw an inkpot at a congressional opponent). He functions in perpetual excitement, moving from desk to desk, room to room, city to city. As President, he has sailed south to lay claim in person to a big piece of the Antarctic, crash-dived in a U.S. submarine off Valparaiso, and tipped over and nearly lost his life canoeing on a south Chilean river. He loves flying, is known all over Chile as "Don Gavion." On a typical weekend at his summer palace at oceanside Vina del Mar, Gonzalez gets in a three-hour...