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...ended, happily enough in the circumstances, the seventh crash on U.S. airlines since last August, the second on Eastern Air Lines in 36 days. (While the ship was missing, the line's president, Eddie Rickenbacker, injured in the first E.A.L. accident, listened from his hospital bed at Atlanta to the radio reports on the search.) That morning, up from Miami, Pilot O'Brien had made a routine stop at West Palm Beach, had headed northwest toward Daytona Beach, knowing he would have to pass through a belt of thunderstorms lying across Florida's width...
...tank's commander, rangy, red-haired Lieut. Colonel Frank R. Williams of the Armored Force, was sitting on a 14-inch-square leather seat, bolted to the iron deck, alongside the 75-mm. gun. His head, protected by a yellow leather crash helmet, was pressed against an oblong sponge-rubber rim which framed the eyepiece of an 18-in. telescopic gun sight. Whenever his target centered in the cross hairs of the sight, he touched an electric firing key, watched a 15-lb. high-explosive projectile rip through a framework target tank...
Dynamic, eloquent Bart J. Bok agreed with him. Ever since his arrival in New York as a young man of twenty-three, just two weeks before the 1929 crash, Bok had been making a name for himself as an astronomer. Now he was turning his eyes from the Milky Way to a more visceral problem, one near and dear to him because it concerned the people of his Dutch birthplace, and because his adopted country could act now to help them...
...Huge Greek and American flags were held high overhead. There was a crash and the sound of splintering glass in the Spomenik off the Terazia as the crowds smashed the windows of the German Travel Bureau. Through double rings of Army guards upon the Terazia they pressed forward until there was another louder crash and the windows of the Italian Travel Bureau fell in splinters...
...golden era of salesmen ended with the '29 crash, nobody told Waters about it. His fortunes rose as the business curve went down. By 1933 he had enough money to buy the San Francisco office building (original cost: $1,250,000) in which he started his business. Last year he branched into selling De Sotos on Long Island, upped his sales to about 4% of De Soto's entire output. Meanwhile he had tackled the taxi business...