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...Seventy miles out from San Pedro the U. S. Fleet, maneuvering last week as a rehearsal for spring war games, ran into a light rain that freshened into a gusty squall. Suddenly, from the droning plane formation above the Flagship Pennsylvania came an unrehearsed crash, flame flashing out across the dark sky. Down near the flagship, Plane 11-P-3, having collided in the wind with Plane 11-P-4, dropped into the sea like a burning meteor. Plane 11-P-4 plummeted into the water by its side...
Sixty-two years ago Sebastian Pozas was born in Navarre, the province of General Franco's best Spanish fighters, the ardently royalist Carlist monarchists. Pozas' brother, a Rightist officer, was reported killed in the same plane crash with Franco's right-hand man, famed General Emilio Mola (TIME, June 14). A cousin, General Gabriel Pozas, is also fighting in the Rightist ranks. Leftist Sebastian Pozas has never concealed his disgust at Anarchists and other Leftist terrorists, did his best to suppress Leftist murder squads in Madrid in the earliest, bloodiest days of the war. In Morocco twelve...
When Bureau of Air Commerce experts convened to investigate Northwest Airlines' crash in which ten were killed near Bozeman, Mont, last month, they may well have had misgivings. For the apparent cause of the accident was major structural failure, a great rarity on airliners. And to the acute discomfiture of the investigating board, their own Bureau of Air Commerce had "rigidly tested" and approved the ship (a new Lockheed 14H which had flown only 190 hours) shortly before the crash...
...year and a half before the 1929 stock crash, bonds broke. Last March, Business failed tc take the hint, however, when bonds that three months before had been at their highest level in history, broke violently. In one day $23,450,000 of Government bonds alone were traded on the New York Stock Exchange, a 16-year record...
...ship crack with a sound like repeated rifle shots, and at times the sides seemed to pant under the strain. The ice itself seemed alive. Once a section near the Jeannette churned as if in a millrace, and sometimes ice fragments as large as houses piled up, threatening to crash down on the ship...