Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henderson showed the pictures, filled with scenes of how to got up a mountain while holding on to a tiny crack in a vertical cliff and letting one's feet dangle out over thousands of foot of open space...
Another way to get up, shown in the pictures, is to grab the crack with one's hands, brace with the feet just below the crack, and move if you can. Then when you get to a vertical niche, you just go right...
...thing that might have confused Reader de Lany was the lapse of too much reading time between the whop, crash, and smash. Now (ahem) if you had written it thus: "Suddenly, just after the big transport had drummed some 25 ft. above the highway . . ., there was a rending crack! whop! smash! as the ship slammed full tilt into a pine power pole, as the motors ripped out and fell and the rest of the plane bashed into a palmetto thicket...
With regard to the "Whop, Crack, Smash" article, I heartily agree with Mr. de Lany...
While other popular explanations of the week ranged from a theory that the market crack was another 1906 "rich man's panic" to the notion that it was a "capital strike" against the New Deal, one fact became increasingly clear: whether or not pessimism over fall business prospects was at the root of the market's drop, the market's drop had certainly dragged down fall business prospects...