Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 17 months of safe operation, U. S. airlines had had their sixth crash-the fifth fatal accident in six months. (It was Eastern's second in eleven years of crack operation.) In that time death on airliners had taken 54 men & women. To Atlanta hurried CAB's crash experts to try to figure out what had happened. To start with, at least, they had a baffler. Trip 21 had gone down while on the beam, headed just where she should have headed. Experienced Pilot Perry apparently had started the same maneuver that brought in two other airliners...
...trumpeted on the floor of the Senate: "This legalized murder should stop." He sat tousle-headed and glaring while bumbling Alben Barkley tried to defend Franklin Roosevelt's reorganization of CAA which abolished the crack, independent Air Safety Board. A Senate subcommittee will investigate the Atlanta crash. And when Pat McCarran's bill to set aside Franklin Roosevelt's reorganization comes to hearing, there will be plenty of fireworks...
...Live on Air,† his masterwork is sometimes lively, sometimes arch, in describing strange doings that range from wiring the pyramids in Egypt for sound to putting on a contest among singing mice. Many are the bad aerial breaks that he recalls. After an announcement of the Macon crash, while listeners were waiting frantically to find out how many had been killed, Ben Bernie cut loose with a number that ran: "Take a number from one to ten, double it and add a million." Equally inappropriate, if not quite so ghoulish, was a tune that followed the broadcast of Roosevelt...
WASHINGTON--The fatal crash of an Eastern Airplanes sleeper plane near Atlanta today revived the bitter Congressional fight which last year almost blocked reorganization of the Civil Aeronautics authority...
...Almost as high as the 1929 pre-crash peak...