Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Argentina, world's greatest cattle exporter, had given way at last on its beef. The U. S. still will not import fresh, chilled or frozen meat from the pampas, in deference to the ire of U. S. cattlemen, already roused by Franklin Roosevelt's crack that Argentine corned beef at 9? a pound is superior food for U. S. sailors to the home product at 24? a pound...
...smart young men who prowled around among the aviation industry's crack-ups in 1932, looking for a wreck to repair and fly, was Harvardman Robert Ellsworth Gross. After a venture in 1928 with Stearman Aircraft Corp. (which he sold to United Aircraft and Transport Corp. within a year after he bought it) and another with Viking Aircraft, which had a not-so-happy ending in the 1929 crash, he had plenty of ambition but little money in his pocket when he learned that Lockheed was for sale...
...naval dock. The bay, Pan Am's usual landing place, was clogged with pleasure craft. But seasoned Pilot A. G. Person confidently swung his ship around for a landing farther out. His twelve passengers, after a smooth and uneventful flight, were fumbling for their belongings when CRACK, the amphibian, turning sharply, struck a gate on the dock. Instantly she broke in two, her fuel took fire. When shore witnesses reached her floating remains, dead were her four crew members, nine of her twelve passengers (one died later in the hospital), including famed Yale Economist James Harvey Rogers, onetime...
...Bill as vice president of the Lincoln-Alliance Bank & Trust Co., largest in Rochester and one of the 100 largest in the U. S. (resources, $86,487,946). That night they sat in honor seats at separate country-club dinners, smiled at many a twin-crack and went home early...
Last week C. & E. I. got its trustee replacement: tall, handsome Chicago Lawyer Benjamin Wham (rhymes with Tom), writing authority on receiverships and reorganization. His most pressing job (to be shared with C. & E. I.'s crack President C. T. O'Neal): to wind up details of the only Class I reorganization already approved by ICC and Federal courts...