Word: crash
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...Hoover and at College on election night we all went to the Union where Albert Bushnell Hart gave the returns and told us what they meant. It was a sad day for Al Smith. A year later, the Great Depression was on. On the day of the Stock Market Crash there were no Transcripts or Travelers left in the Business School dining hall. Those businessmen, including President Hoover's youngest son, Alan, snatched them...
...coal, shale rock and tar sands. That would enable the nation to cut its projected consumption of imported oil about one-third by 1990. The House-Senate conferees accepted the ultimate goal of the program as set by the President but slowed the pace of spending. Instead of a crash effort that would probably lead to waste and contracting boondoggles, the synfuel project is now to be broken into two stages. The first will be a four-year period, with up to $20 billion in federal spending. In a second phase, as much as $68 billion more in federal money...
...their brainstorm has some shortcomings. Because of the shuttle's small payload, only the most hazardous fission byproducts could be considered for launch. They would also require almost foolproof packaging-probably a hardened mix of metals and ceramic encased in stainless steel spheres. As a precaution against a crash during lift-off or in the early stages of the journey, the spheres would be carried in an aerodynamically shaped container with heat shielding. That would enable them to survive a fiery plunge back into the atmosphere without spreading radioactive debris round the earth...
DIED. John C. Bennett, 56, retired Army major general who played a role in the Watergate scandal as a presidential assistant and official custodian of the infamous White House tapes after their discovery in July 1973; of injuries received in the crash of his plane near Anchorage. It was Bennett who revealed the existence of unexplained gaps in the tapes and later testified extensively about the still mysterious 18½-minute erasure of a conversation between Richard Nixon and Aide H.R. Haldeman about the Democratic Party headquarters break-in in June...
Ricard Barnet came to work in the White House on the day of the Bay of Pigs invasion, and his susequent eye-opening experiences in the State Department provided him with a crash course in the machinery of American foreign policy. "I was gradually made aware of the increased involvement of the U.S. in Indochina. I sensed that there was something wrong with that and that it was being presented in a way that was very different from reality," Barnet explained recently from his suite in the Ritz-Carlton overlooking the Boston Common, a way-stop on a promotion tour...