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Lucky Private. In Pocatello, Idaho, the sole survivor of a plane crash was Private John J. Lucky...
...which Latin Americans have been listening for more than two decades, have become as indelible a part of their culture as the Spanish and Portuguese tongues. Several years ago, while Lecuona was safely on his plantation near Havana, a businessman named Ricardo Lecuona was killed in a plane crash in Colombia. While news flashes mistakenly identified the dead man as Ernesto, radio stations in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Argentina went off the air for periods of silence in his honor...
Near Barnegat Inlet on the New Jersey coast, duck hunters lay in fogbound blinds and listened to the stodgy thrum of two blimps plowing through the overcast. Then they heard a ripping crash. Through the fog, wreckage dripped down into...
...Fridén into deep red ink, finally dumped Fridén right out. He went back to shoestring calculating, determined to invent a competing machine and at the same time avoid any patent fights. In one year flat he had it: with the $27,000 the market crash had left him, plus $25,000 from four California backers, he started the Fridén Calculating Machine...
...Naval ensigns, "flat-hatting" in a trainer, hit and beheaded a woman working in an Alabama field. Both youngsters were cashiered, sent to prison. But the worst "fooling" accident yet was at Palm Springs, Calif., last October, when nine passengers and the crew of three died in the crash of an American airliner clipped in flight by an Army Lockheed B34. CAB investigated the crash, reported that the "probable" cause was the "reckless and irresponsible conduct of Lieut. William N. Wilson in deliberately maneuvering a bomber in dangerous proximity to the airliner in an unjustifiable attempt to attract the attention...