Word: crash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crash was mystifying because modern commercial aviation had apparently solved the problems that brought the DC-9 hurtling out of the sky at 150 m.p.h. The engine was one of the most reliable ever made: Pratt & Whitney's JT8D7, now used by some 2,800 aircraft all over the world. Never in 112 million hours of flying time had rain or hail caused one of these engines-let alone two-to "flame out" (quit). Federal air-safety experts discovered that the engines had ingested a great deal of water and overheated, but they were not sure of the exact...
...modern jet airliner has largely eliminated the danger that planes will be caught in the kind of massive storms that have been called the "anvil of the gods." "Wind shear," created by colliding air masses, was listed as the probable cause of an Eastern 727's crash while landing at Kennedy International Airport in 1975; 114 people were killed. But aviation experts believe that until last week, no American jetliner had ever been knocked out of the skies by bad weather...
...that Britain, "the last bastion of genuine entrepreneurial capitalism," has strayed too far down the road toward welfare-state egalitarianism and has forgotten excellence, hard work and the need for a talented elite to run things if the economy is not to go smash. Should Britain's economy crash, Goldsmith feels, democracy would expire in the wreckage. Part of the trouble, he believes, is a "cancer in the British press eating away at its guts." This cancer causes the more strident popular journals to attack pillars of the British system from the monarchy to the moderate politicians of both...
Died. Alexander L. Guterma, 62, financial wizard who swindled investors out of millions of dollars in the 1950s; along with five members of his family in the crash of his private plane as it approached New York City's La Guardia Airport. An entrepreneur in the Philippines during World War II, he arrived in the U.S. in 1950 and quickly gained control of more than a dozen companies, including a brokerage firm, electronics and real estate interests, and the Mutual Broadcasting System. Guterma was convicted in 1960 of fraud, conspiracy and failing to register as an agent of Dominican...
...News? A Survey of the Selective Predilection of 250 New York City Subway Riders for News Stories Headlined 'War', 'Plane Crash,' 'Assassination,' 'Rape,' 'Murder,' 'Kidnapping...