Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carolyn House, 14, a sturdy, 5-ft. 4-in. blonde from Los Angeles who still sports braces on her teeth and looks young enough to crash the ticket gate for half fare, gracefully stroked her way to a new American record of 19 min. 45 sec. in the 1,500-meter freestyle, longest and most grueling of all swimming events...
...Suddenly, Mikuletzky shouted as the ZPG gently folded and dropped "like a sagging banana." Aboard the blimp, Crewman Antonio Contreras, 22, heard a blast, felt the airship nose over, and seconds later was fighting his way free into the water. Only two of his mates survived the unexplained crash with him. One crewman died after being pulled from the sea; 17 others drowned in their double-decked gondola under 15 fathoms. Later, the missing sloop was spotted by planes and a submarine. It was in no trouble...
...crash brought the argument full circle. Vice Admiral Charles E. Rosendahl, U.S.N. (ret.), a survivor of the Shenandoah crash but still the champion of the big, rigid ships, hastened to accuse the Navy of "questionable wisdom" in building oversized, noncompartmented blimps, suggested that with modern construction methods rigid airships would be far safer. Blimp men were equally quick to defend their ships. Even though he still could not explain the crash. Captain Frederick N. Klein Jr., commanding officer of Fleet Airship Wing One (which includes the three remaining ZPGs, along with some smaller blimps), insisted: "I still think we have...
Ambassadors at Large. The Wall Street crash unnerved Joe Kennedy and persuaded him to put aside his innate conservatism and become an ardent supporter and a lavish financial backer of Franklin Roosevelt. As SECommissioner and chief of the Maritime Commission, where he performed a notable service to his country by salvaging and reorganizing the bankrupt U.S. merchant marine, Joe lived in Washington for long stretches, frequently brought the family down to meet President Roosevelt and the top dogs of the New Deal. When Roosevelt appointed Joe Kennedy as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's-the first...
...minute and sell it for a half-point profit the next. He often is "long" (buying a stock for a rise) in one stock while "short" (selling for a fall) in another. Coleman actually profited in the Cardiac Break, just as he did in the market's crash in 1929. "We were both long and short. To survive...