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Queen Mother Marie of Yugoslavia got a vigorous shaking-up in a car crash near London...
...week's end the weather opened up enough for larger flights to operate. From the southern English coast Britons watched them wheeling over, then heard from the coast of France the intermittent crash of their bombs. It was one of the heaviest raids the invasion coast had ever stood. To R.A.F. men who think a good blitz is likely to be more effective than a second front in Europe, it was also one of the most significant...
Preliminary investigation uncovered no hint as to cause of the crash. The meager facts: The plane was in no apparent mechanical difficulty. Although the rain gave way to sleet and snow within a half-hour, neither Pilot Brown nor pilots who came in before & after had reported icing difficulty. Wind was northwesterly, velocity 20 m.p.h. The Salt Lake City radio range, whose faulty operation misled another mainliner into a Wasatch ridge in November 1940, was working normally. Had Don Brown been 300 feet higher, he would have cleared the knob...
...rugged, deceptive high-low Wasatch mountain range Trip 4 was the fifth commercial airliner to crash since 1934 for a total of 61 lives. For United Air Lines, holder of the National Safety Council's 1941 safety certificate, it marked the end of 17 months, and 409,000,000 revenue passenger miles, without fatality to passenger or crew...
...history -and fewer of them looked like Whistler's. For more than a century the U.S. birthrate has been dropping. The draft had much to do with a fact now noted by statisticians: the U.S. birthrate last year was 18.8 per 1,000, highest since the crash of 1929. In 1941 there were 2,500,000 new U.S. babies, and 1,500,000 new brides. Some of the brides are already mothers and lots more U.S. babies are on the way. In February 1941 the U.S. birthrate hit 20.2, passing Germany's for the first time since...