Word: crash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kreider-Bruce Crash...
...pilots; and that's exactly what happened. The next mistake you made was your statement that Mr. Kreider was coasting about in his Challenger. That's not true. It was Mr. Kreider who had been stunting; had just completed a lot of barrel rolls, and zoomed up - crashing into the bottom of the All American monoplane piloted by Captain Bruce. The next mistake you made was in stating that Captain Bruce's ship was an experimental plane. That is not true. The experimental plane had been flown around here for several months. The ship that Captain Bruce...
...Manhattan it had been anticipated for some weeks that Dr. Schacht would, nay must, take this step.* In Paris, however, angry editors rose above common sense, charged that the lowering of the rate last January was a "plot," even charged that the "Iron Man" would rather see the mark crash down to infinitesimal value a second time?thus bankrupting the Fatherland?than agree to pay the Allies what Germany owes...
Furthermore, the railroad juggler usually has the Interstate Commerce Commission shrieking "Drop it! Drop it!" from the front row. So occasionally there is a crash, and bits of dishes and lamp chimneys lie, Humpty-Dumpty like, on the stage floor. Last week the final fragments of one unfortunate juggle went dustbin-bound. The juggler was Leonor F. Loree, able head of Delaware & Hudson. His performance was called The Fifth Trunk Line. The broken pieces were 135,000 shares of Cotton Belt (St. Louis Southwestern R. R.). These shares were sold by the Kansas City Southern to a Manhattan holding company...
...Francis Ouimet, wife of the one-time (1913) U. S. open and (1914) amateur golf champion, was hospitalized last week in Arlington, Mass. Cause: an auto-mobile-trolley crash...