Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This oil may mean the salvation of our poor Austria!" cried Professor Julius Suida of Vienna Technical College. "I estimate that this new oil supply will be worth more to the State than the $150,000,000 which was lost in the crash of the Kreditanstalt" (TIME, June...
...list is now about 20.) The company grew to be not the titan that United Aircraft & Transport is but an extremely potent and coherent transport system holding ten of the 23 domestic airmail contracts. However the growing pains were acute. When Avco was six months old the 1929 crash occurred. Immediately afterward the company altered its investment policy, put much of its ample cash into other than aviation stocks. There were three presidents in three years, President LaMotte Turck Cohu taking office last March just in time to greet Mr. Cord...
After the Crash, according to Senator Glass, President Hoover called "mass meetings" at the White House as "psychological poultices" but set his face against any definite legislative action...
...mild competent manager and Duke Talbot (Pat O'Brien) is his swashbuckling star pilot. While Talbot dallies with a pilot's widow (Lillian Bond), Miller has to leave his girl (Gloria Stuart) to fly the mail. Naturally, even an honest aviation picture must contain a crash and rescue; this time they happen when Miller cracks up in a snowstorm and Talbot flies a stolen plane into the mountains to bring him back. Good shot: Desert Airport on Christmas night, with a pattern of planes rising in the lighted snowy...
...Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp.) There was white-shocked Capt. Horace B. Wild, 61, who 40 years ago exhibited two 'chute-jumping goats and later (1905) became the dare-devil aeronaut of Chicago's "White City" amusement park. His eyes are still red and watery from a 1910 crash which all but cost him his sight. With him was Roy Knabenshue who barnstormed for years with Capt. Wild in their dangerous little "rubber cows" (small dirigibles...