Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field near Eesen, Belgium, fortnight ago a peasant looked up from his spring radishes to see the Imperial Airways liner City of Liverpool suddenly burst into flames and crash like a meteor in a field, twelve passengers and the crew of three dying instantly (TIME, April...
Again the storm dashed the great ship downward, and this time clawed away a section of her belly fabric and part of her rudder. Again ballast was dumped; but the ship did not rise. Down, down she went-CRASH-upon the surface of the writhing sea. For a brief moment the 110-ton hulk floated while its buoyant helium hissed away into the gale. Then the pounding waves wrenched it to bits. Here and there, by the occasional brilliance of the lightning flashes, a witness could have discerned men of the Akron flailing about in the water...
...more men ever were found, alive. The Phœbus's first awful flash of the accident was picked up by a German-speaking operator of Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. in Manhattan at 1:46 a.m. It simply reported the crash, and the rescue of four men. Immediately the Coast Guard sent cutters dashing to the position, 20 miles off Barnegat Lightship. The cruiser U. S. S. Portland steamed for the scene. Weatherbound, airplane pilots chafed and champed until dawn. Within a few hours a fleet of rescue ships were circling by sea and air around...
...Missouri Pacific R. R. stock was eyed curiously because of a long, unspectacular but steady rise in price. Not until long after the stock-market crash did the public learn the reason why: Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers had been quietly buying control. The Brothers Van Sweringen put $86,000,000 into MOP securities, paid better than $80 a share for the common stock majority. Last week MOP stock sold at $1.25. Borne down with a weary load of debt and dwindling earnings, MOP subsided into bankruptcy...
...unsuspecting nose. When she went back to Kossovia, Patrick followed to clinch matters. Arrived in Novograd, he found Marie's return had been delayed; meantime he discovered old schoolmates there and began to enjoy Kossovian society. Beautiful Eurydice had begun to attract him even before his airplane crash; afterwards, he had no eyes for anyone else and could not remember ever having seen Marie before. But Eurydice, having more political fish to fry, gave Patrick only cool encouragement. When the fish were well cooked and the government overturned, Patrick was hit on the head in a riot and found...