Project Gutenberg 2025-05-28 Public domain in the USA. 159 Jamieson, Leland 1904 1941 Jamieson, Leland Shattuck Jamieson, Leland S. Lehman, Paul Storm $aChicago :$bThe Consolidated Magazines Corporation, $c1929. Produced from the August, 1929 issue of Blue Book magazine. Roger Frank and Sue Clark "Storm by Leland Jamieson" is an aviation adventure short story written in the late 1920s. Set in Texas, it follows a desperate race against nature after a tornado obliterates a small hill town, focusing on the perilous logistics of emergency aid. The likely topic is the courage and ingenuity of ordinary people and pilots under extreme pressure, as a risky flight is attempted to bring medical help to the devastated community. A tornado levels Rock Springs, leaving chaos, injuries, and darkness. Mary Collins, the town’s telephone operator, struggles through the storm and lightning to reach a distant ranch and raise the alarm. In San Antonio, Doctor Wilson enlists Air Patrol pilot Nick Wentworth to fly him in an aging Vought with a leaking radiator. Their night flight forces an emergency landing; they improvise a water-feed from the wing tank and build a dirt ramp to claw into the air, damaging the landing gear. Battling headwinds and dwindling water, they reach the hills near Rock Springs, dead-stick into a tiny roadside field, and crash—but survive. Driven into town with Mary, they find relief that Wilson’s mother is safe, and the tale closes by honoring Mary’s grit while noting how close the daring air rescue came to failing. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250523204057jamieson 1929 US Reading ease score: 80.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Short stories Texas -- Fiction Air pilots -- Fiction Storms -- Fiction PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Adventure Category: American Literature 65700 2025-07-30T07:00:29.015855 text/html 41499 2025-05-28T20:28:02 text/html 1035518 2025-07-30T07:00:32.333872 application/epub+zip 1034292 2025-07-30T07:00:30.134887 application/epub+zip 305901 2025-07-30T07:00:29.400893 application/epub+zip 2380317 2025-07-30T07:00:34.014851 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2373872 2025-07-30T07:00:31.771920 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 58165 2025-07-30T07:00:28.865857 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 38454 2025-05-28T20:28:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14456 2025-07-30T07:00:34.327845 application/rdf+xml 31197 2025-07-30T07:00:29.628879 image/jpeg 4797 2025-07-30T07:00:29.511855 image/jpeg 1029182 2025-07-30T07:00:29.037922 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog