Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after the 1929 stockmarket crash. Travelers received a similar threat, but the policy holder bearded the company in its Hartford home office. Officials pointed out that he was using extortion. He did not kill himself until two years later...
...said at first that Thomas Bat'a's private plane had collided with a chimney of his plant, but when the mist cleared the chimney was seen to be unscarred. Some other cause produced the crash, the muffled explosion, the sudden burst of flame amid which died both Thomas Bat'a and an ace pilot who had flown him successfully around the whole of India...
...Premier Frantisek Udrzal of Czechoslovakia who dropped his Government work at Prague, rushed 170 miles to Zlin. When Premier Udrzal arrived the House of Bat'a was profoundly calm. Cash in bank totaled $2,500,000. Since the public held no Bat'a stock it could not crash. Quietly the Bat'a Board elected Jan Bat'a to be the new First Working Partner...
...beginning of the week the city became mildly bank-conscious when Banker John Bain & associates were put on trial as a result of the crash of the twelve Bain banks last October with deposits of $10,000,000, loans of $13,000,000 and only $321,832 on hand in cash. By the end of the week the city was far more bank-conscious. During the preceding three days, 22 outlying banks had closed their doors. Into the Loop, stronghold of Chicago finance, marched a small army of worried depositors, some of them foreigners, most of them poor, practically...
...individual sportsman flyer were to insure himself for $5,000, his ship for $3,000 (against fire, theft, etc.). and take average coverage for public liability, passenger liability and property damage, his yearly premiums would total upward of $460. Were he to add crash insurance the figure would soar to $910-considerably more than a whole year's depreciation of his plane. Also, he would be hampered by numerous flight restrictions. Not long ago rates were even higher. Prime reason was lack of data on amateurs' accidents, forcing the conclusion that all private flyers were bad risks. Last...