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British Historian Arnold Toynbee (A Study of History) thus describes part of the price our civilization has paid in solving the problem of transport. Americans have their own way of saying it: "the nut that holds the wheel." California last week saw a crash that even Americans might remember a few days...
...resort, two American UNRRA workers on holiday watched a U.S. transport plane come in from, the north. Two smaller Yugoslav planes darted about it. Suddenly the transport began to smoke, rolled over on its side, plunged into a wooded hillside. The two Americans started for the scene of the crash. They scrambled up granite slopes past a Yugoslav officer who paid no attention to them. But when they started down the mountain after a futile search for the wreck, the Yugoslavs had set up a machine gun at a roadblock, carefully checked their identification...
Whatever the weather, four (probably five) Americans* were killed in the crash. On the trees around the wreck hung blobs of flesh. Last week the flyers' shattered bodies lay in a common grave in the mountain village of Koprivnik...
Died. William H. Price, 27, wartime lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, TIME & LIFE correspondent in Egypt; in a plane crash; near Ismailia, Egypt...
Howard Hughes, out of the hospital five weeks after the crash of his experimental plane, took with him a brainchild that had come in handy. The multimillionaire plane designer now had a super-adjustable hospital bed with six adjustable sections and six cranks...