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...years, mail subsidies were 60% of Northwest's revenues. But Hunter made a reputation of flying his planes through bad weather-and over mountainous terrain-on schedule. Northwest also flew without a fatal passenger accident until construction bugs in their new Lockheed 14s spoiled this record with a crash in January 1938. Northwest's earnings cracked up too. They went into the red for two years...
Died. Carl A. Cover, 51, lean, weather-beaten, super-efficient Bell Aircraft Corp. vice president, onetime crack test pilot of nearly all Douglas aircraft (e.g., DC-3 transport, A20 attack "Havoc" bomber, etc.); and Max Stupar, 59, Austrian-born industrial-aviation planner; in an airplane crash, while flying a twin-engined cargo plane from Marietta, Ga. to Buffalo, N.Y.; near Wright Field, Dayton...
...time later waves got over the target, the Japs had come to and begun to fight. But only one Superfort went down; a Jap Tony (single-engined fighter) crashed into its tail and fell with it. Another B-29 crash-landed at sea with engine trouble, but the crew got out in rubber rafts and was picked up by Navy rescuers within 24 hours. Said Rosie O'Donnell: "One of the easiest missions I've been...
...admiral would be flying a torpedo bomber Tokyo did not even attempt to make clear. But there was a possible explanation in a recent speech by Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, head of the central headquarters of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association. Cried Colonel Hashimoto: "We must crash into the enemy in suicidal attacks at the front and at home . . . the only thing for us to do is to decide to die, so this burning determination may take the form of firepower in the general war situation...
...howl of their own. Actress Goddard insisted that she had "played all but three days when I was ordered to bed by the Army physician." Comedian Brown, who has an outstanding record of devotion to soldier entertainment and whose soldier son was killed in a plane crash, angrily retorted that he "did all a 53-year-old man could do." The Hollywood Victory Committee blamed broken promises on Army snags, added that Ann Sheridan and Joel McCrea had both been , held up by lack of transportation...