Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year after the crash of October 1929, British newsorgans exulted in the "collapse" of the U. S. In recent months Britons, absorbed in contemplation of themselves as impoverished and deserving debtors, have paid less attention to the plight...
...mile west of the airport, 800 ft. aloft, the big ship went into a spin, crashed into a grove of trees. Engineer, assistant, test-pilot, all were killed. To their graves they took the secret of the crash. Best guess: sudden shifting of the bags of lead ballast...
...standstill.* And it thereby stopped (as it was intended it should) a run on New Orleans' $65,000,000 Hibernia Bank & Trust Co.-third largest bank in the city. To New Orleans it was the fantastic second act of a drama that opened last month with the crash of the big Union Indemnity Insurance group (TIME, Jan. 16), closely associated with President Rudolf S. Hecht of the Hibernia and Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long...
...Orleans newspapers for days & days did not carry a line on the Union Indemnity crash after their first brief inside-page stories. When they received Washington dispatches on Congressman Fish's charges last week they killed them, ostrich-wise, at President Hecht's urgent request. Of course the news went out to newspapers in the North. Hibernia Bank & Trust, doing a nation-wide business, began to suffer heavy out-of-town withdrawals, and the news seeped through New Orleans' financial district. President Hecht wired complete refutation of the charges and Congressman Fish offered to review the facts...
...profits. As an investment adviser, well-recommended by many a banker, she began speculating (successfully) for her clients. John P. Morgan's sister Anne, the late Elizabeth Marbury and Amelia Earhart Putnam were among them. Her big offices on Fifth Avenue were always busy. Just before the stockmarket crash, as a member of the Committee on the Financial Education of Women she headed a thrift exposition in Manhattan. Last week Edna V. O'Brien was arrested for grand larceny...