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...crash most dreaded by airmail men is the one that ends in fire. Unless the pilot can extricate the bags from the flames, the mail is surely lost, there being no perfected means of dumping the bags in flight in an emergency.* Post Office officials eyed with interest an experiment begun last week by National Air Transport and Railway Express Agency, with a fireproof and heat-proof cargo pouch developed by Johns-Manville Corp. This new bag was said to withstand a fire hot enough to melt sheet-metal and fuse pipes, without allowing even the sealing wax on letters...
...Winding through heavy Sunday traffic back to the Capital, President Hoover saw an automobile careening dangerously toward him, swerve by. He heard a loud crash. He told his chauffeur to stop, got out, went back along the road, found that the White House machine in which his Secretary Lawrence Richey and other friends were riding had been smashed by an automobile driven by a Mrs. Carolyn Lone Beach of Brooklyn, N. Y. None was hurt. The President drove...
Many an unexplained crash of aircraft in stormy weather has called forth the theory that the plane was struck by lightning. Last week the possibility was offered again. An old Lockheed monoplane, carrying four Kansas City businessmen and a transport pilot home from a fishing trip, took off from Aransas Pass, Tex., climbed 4,000 ft., disappeared in a big black cloud. A moment later watchers saw the ship hurtle out of the cloud, its wing trailing like a broken limb. The hull crashed to earth, disintegrating as it fell. All occupants were killed. There was no explosion, no fire...
...figures failed to reflect large income tax losses due to last year's stock-market crash. In fact income tax receipts were up $80,000,000 above the 1929 level. Business depression since Jan. 1 likewise made no appearances in these fiscal statistics; its effect will not emerge until next year's tax payments...
...crate's slats, then hurled its 1,200 lbs. against the end boards, burst through, charged the truck driver and the ferry's brass-buttoned mate. All passengers and the mate fled to the top deck, leaving the bull snorting and plunging below. Came a crash of glass and a mighty splash-the animal diving through a window into the choppy harbor...