Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heirs of the victims filed suit against everyone who might be involved-the Federal Aviation Agency, which was in charge of traffic control, United Airlines, and TWA as well. It mattered not a bit that after prolonged investigation the Civil Aeronautics Board pinned the entire blame for the crash on United's pilot...
Died. Michael John Lithgow, 43, ace test pilot for British Aircraft Corp., onetime holder of the world speed record (737.3 m.p.h. in 1953); in a test-flight crash, with six other top British flyers and engineers, of the prototype BAG One-Eleven, the free world's first short-haul jetliner; near Chicklade, Wiltshire...
...mutual funds often seem as tough, persistent and irrepressible as the 100,000 salesmen (mostly part-timers) who peddle them. In the past 18 months they have been hit by a stock-market crash, a blistering attack on their performance from Pennsylvania's Wharton business school, and a severe critique of their aggressiveness from the Securities & Exchange Commission. Yet, to hear the leading fund dealers talk at their annual convention in Miami Beach last week, all this was in the past -and the bull was back in the mutual-fund business...
From the chloroquine family of chemicals, Dr. Craig moved on to the penicillins, which were being produced under a wartime crash program. He has since turned to bacitracin (another anti-biotic), fatty acids, the master hormones of the pituitary gland, the hormones of the parathyroid, and insulin...
...West Germany's economy has given off some static recently with the ominous crash of several industrial giants, including Automaker Carl Borgward and Shipbuilder Willy Schlieker. Last week another big one swayed perilously close to collapse...