Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Breathless, he explained, as with trembling hands he unwrapped, that at last, at long last-crash! At his feet lay the arduously wrought statuette of Sculptor Taylor's old age, in fragments...
...Sapiro-Ford trial the following events were chronicled: Henry Ford was badly battered in an automobile accident. Stuart Hanley, lawyer for Mr. Ford, suffered a back strain. Two of Aaron Sapiro's children came down with scarlet fever. Milton Sapiro (brother) splintered a wrist in another automobile crash. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, chief counsel for Mr. Ford, went to the Henry Ford hospital with an acute attack of gastrointestinal trouble. ... Superstitious observers whispered that the trial was hoodooed...
...Levines, horrified, watched the plane circle hopelessly about, followed by an ambulance ready to pick up the bodies. They saw Carisi climb over the edge, struggle vainly, hanging head down, to fix the buckled wheel. Pilot Chamberlin. wrapped the children in blankets to save the shock of a crash. Then he slowly swooped down, ten feet from the ground flattened into a pancake stall, 'tail downwards. A wing dragged along the ground, slewed the ship around but not over. Incredibly, Pilot Chamberlin, hero with Pilot Bert Acosta of the world-record endurance flight (TIME, April 25) had eluded disaster...
...catastrophe last week when this frail, slim lady, garbed as always in the mode of old Nippon, announced briefly that the liabilities of Suzuki & Co. total one quarter of a billion dollars, and that the firm will temporarily suspend payment on certain of its obligations. The ensuing crash on the Tokyo bourse was similar to what might be expected in Wall Street should J. P. Morgan & Co. make a similar announcement. At Tokyo all quoted securities registered an average drop of ten yen, and the yen itself moved down a fraction on international exchange. If the agents of Mme. Suzuki...
Accident or Plot? One group of spokesmen for Henry Ford announced that he regards the crash merely as an accident caused by a drunken driver or a roadhog. The other spokesmen said that Mr. Ford believes a deliberate attempt was made to kill him. The details of the crash, the secrecy in which it was kept for three days, the elaborate precautions in bringing Mr. Ford home from the hospital (two ambulances, two stretchers), the heavily increased guard about the Ford home?all tend to confirm the plot theory, which Mr. Ford is said to have dropped...