Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said was "as square a man as you'll ever know, and when his friends are losing he is losing more than any of them." Broker Block ought to know; he helped Durant throw away a $90,000,000 fortune trying to support General Motors' stock in the 1920 crash. But Bull Durant fell out with Broker Block two years ago when his account was sold out. Early this year he sued for $378,000, claiming he loaned the stock as a favor to Broker Block. Broker Block curtly stated that Durant had been warned to put up more margin...
...Abbott, U.S.N.R., nearly lost his own life while trying to make his terrified passenger jump from a spinning Navy plane. The passenger, another reservist named Floyd Vivian Schultz, sat motionless, paralyzed by fear. Lieut. Abbott tried in vain to push him out, finally had to jump, leave Schultz to crash with the plane...
...companies. One deal was made last week. The Barnes group acquired control of Kentucky Home Life, a company which has $130,000,000 worth of policies in force and which was organized to reinsure the business of Inter-Southern Insurance Co., a concern which was felled by the crash of Rogers Clark Caldwell. The rumored price was $1,350,000. The most acute angle to the deal was that Kentucky Home owns 29% interest in Missouri State Life of St. Louis, a company with $1,100,000,000 worth of policies outstanding and ranked as the biggest life insurance concern...
...down into it. In doing so she was whirled against the cabin door, which flew open. Her foot caught in a safety strap, saved her. Pilot Copeland pulled the plane safely out of the spin about 100 ft. above the chimney tops-so low that 700 persons telephoned a crash alarm to police...
When red freight-car corpuscles are flowing through the arteries of U.S. business, the plants of three great companies are filled with the crash of hydraulic forges, the pounding of hundreds of hammers, making those mighty creatures of the industrial age, railroad locomotives, Iron Horses. The gestation period of an Iron Horse is about four months, yet the three companies can easily turn out a total of 2,000 locomotives yearly. In the past year the three companies-Baldwin Locomotive Works, American Locomotive Co., Lima Locomotive Works-received among them precisely one order for a new locomotive. It came from...