Mar 21, 2024 · Earhart had bested Boll to become the first woman passenger to successfully fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Boll abandoned her plans to continue east, unimpressed by the prospect of …

Oct 27, 2014 · The most deadly shipwreck in Great Lakes history—a calamity that would take more passenger lives than the sinking of the Titanic or the Lusitania —was under way.

Jul 23, 2024 · The driver complied, but Saxon refused to relocate, contending that “he was comfortable in his seat, that he did not desire to move and that he was a passenger in interstate commerce,” the ...

Dec 7, 2023 · Today, safety drill requirements on passenger ships are much more stringent, in large part due to the Vestris and other maritime disasters.

After the investigation, the Comet 1’s future was sealed. It never carried another passenger. Neither did its wouldbe successors, Comets 2 and 3.

Jan 9, 2025 · When a morphine-addicted passenger lurched into withdrawal, the doctor shot him up with his only syringe—sterilized with gin from the bar—then stashed the man in a sleeper compartment.

Though her role was merely as a passenger—two men actually piloted the plane from Newfoundland to Wales—George Putnam, a publicist who had helped select her, made sure Earhart got the lion's ...

Jul 22, 2021 · Over the previous decade, Ballin oversaw the expansion of the passenger arm of the company by retrofitting freight ships into barely acceptable cruise liners to some success.

May 9, 2014 · Further, where the passenger does handle his own luggage, he is often required to walk very great distances. Illustration from a patent of the wheeled suitcase, as popularized by Bernard …

Oct 21, 2009 · Earhart catapulted into the limelight in June 1928 as the first female passenger to fly across the Atlantic. “I was just baggage, like a sack of potatoes,” she candidly admitted.