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Perhaps there would be an aëroplane wreck in addition to a shipwreck.
...He hastened back to the pool that had now acquired this high significance. The carpenters were still puttering around on the scaffold. He saw that platforms for the cameras had been built out from the side.
He noted, too, and was puzzled by an aëroplane propeller that had been stationed close to one corner of the pool, just beyond the stern of the little sailing-craft. Perhaps there would be an aëroplane wreck in addition to a shipwreck.
ex Harry Leon Wilson, Merton of the Movies (1922) : 168
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