Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interceptor then fired two heat-seeking missiles. The second struck an engine on the 707 and blew a hole in the fuselage, killing two passengers and injuring 13. Crippled but still under power, the jet plunged from 35,000 ft. to 3,000 ft. before leveling off. It crash-landed 45 minutes later on an ice-covered lake. The Soviet authorities never owned up to the attack. Instead, they totted up the expenses of rescuing the survivors, including food and lodging for three days and transportation from the crash site to Murmansk, and blithely submitted a bill...
...storm's winds accelerated, the mood grew more serious. Windows in the imposing Hotel Galvez, facing the gulf, began imploding into rooms, sending many of the 300 guests scurrying into the hallways. Then an entire wall of the 1911 building collapsed. "We just heard one crash after another," said Hotel Manager Dan Dick. After midnight, Mayor Manuel finally ordered a widespread evacuation, but by that time it was impossible for people to drive across the bridges leading to the mainland. Hundreds headed instead for the three Red Cross shelters. Said Cora Handy, 73, as she walked with the help...
...launching of FORTUNE was proclaimed just one week before Black Thursday, the stock-market crash of 1929. (Its founder, Henry R. Luce, decided to go ahead anyway after learning from the experts that "this slump may last as long as one year.") Luce wanted a magazine of business that would go beyond "the stale Get-Rich Maxims of onetime errand boys." He knew that businessmen got as "kittenish as a Victorian subdeb" when caught in the public eye but was not prepared for how hesitant corporations were to open their doors. In those days, stockholders were entitled to little information...
...recreational flyers. In some cases, they test their electronic beacons, known as ELTs (emergency locator transmitters), to see if they are working properly, and then forget to turn them off. These devices, required by law, automatically start broadcasting on standard international frequencies after a sharp impact like a crash. When spurious NASA signals deluge the air waves, rescuers are overwhelmed. They must track down every alarm. Says Mosemann: "Suppose your local fire station received your call and the fire chief has to ask a policeman to drive by your house and verify the problem. Ridiculous...
...child, was educated as a privileged Englishman, won an Oxford scholarship in modern languages, but went instead to Argentina to live among gauchos, returned to London, and learned the international grain trade. He was on the point of becoming wealthy as a grain speculator in the U.S. when the Crash of '29 bankrupted his company. His entry into the performing arts occurred simply because he had married an actress and knew a few theater people...