Word: crash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweltering evening, the shouts from the union hall on Kansas City's Main Street could be heard almost a block away. There was a crash of glass, and some bodies hurtled out onto the tile roof. One man dropped to the lawn, then dashed back upstairs to rejoin the fighting. Congressmen Leonard Irving, who is also president and business agent of Kansas City's Hod Carriers' Building and Common Laborers' Union (A.F.L.), was talking things over with his rank & file...
Chugging in eleventh, but safely, came the Aston-Martin with the English novices. Said Rob Lawrie, proudly: "We let the others pass and crash. We just kept on going. Back home, I am going to have a drophead hood [convertible top] put on, then I'll take Aunt Agatha out in it. This car has got to last the family a long time...
...Drawbacks. Investment trusts have had their own ups & downs. In the '203 they grew to a $7 billion business which the 1929 crash almost wiped out. Even some that survived were guilty of sharp practices and management abuses which brought on a five-year investigation by the SEC. The probe resulted in the Investment Company Act of 1940, that put investment companies under rigorous SEC supervision...
...Navy surplus 70-foot crash boat...
...preliminary stages of a "crash...