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...know about Hess's flight was David McLean, a tenant on the estate of the Duke of Hamilton, near Glasgow. David was in the house Saturday night and everyone else was in bed when he heard a plane overhead. He ran out back of the farm, heard a crash and saw a plane burst into flame in his field. A man was coming down in a parachute, so David got out his pitchfork...
Most common explanations for the low level of stock prices are three: 1) Investors agree with business bigwigs that when the rearmament boom ends, business will have a record crash. The FORTUNE Forum of Executive Opinion in December voted two-to-one that business conditions after the war will be the worst ever because the U.S. entered the rearmament spree without first setting its economic house in order. 2) Investors are sure the Administration is fundamentally unfriendly to business, expect company profits to be squeezed between rising wages and taxes carefully planned to siphon off profits. 3) Demand for stocks...
...when an engine quits on a takeoff. No pilot ever liked the feeling. For from that point on the lives of pilot and passengers depend on his cool skill and on lots of luck. Unless there is a good open field ahead, the chances are heavy for a bad crash...
...power line (they surround too many U.S. fields) and headed up a wide ravine into the hills. The Boeing's best rate of climb on one engine was not quite enough. No more than 100 feet from the top of the rise, Pilot Wright saw he must certainly crash. He eased his ship into a stall close to the trees, let her pancake. Her right wing ripped off and she banged down to the ground, her tail flipping forward over the fuselage...
Best sequence occurs in an isolated Arizona ranch house. There Maggie has taken Sandra to have Pete's baby after he is believed dead in an airplane crash in Brazil. The women have made a deal: Maggie to get Sandra's baby, Sandra to get a trust fund. It takes all Maggie's bullying, pampering, coercion to get the spoiled pianist to produce the baby. When the baby is finally born, Maggie subsides on the moonlit porch outside the house with all the apparent relief of an anguished father...