Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortune in oil during his wanderings, left it to his wife and two daughters and faded out of the scene, reputedly dead. He returns on the eve of an elaborate soiree by which the two daughters and the husband of one of them, Helford by name, hope to crash the local 400. Much to their alarm their mother, who makes no pretense of her humble origin, engages the genial old wanderer, unaware of his identity, to help her prepare for the affair. He proceeds to set the girls and the ridiculous Helford aright, and, to their horror, takes the party...
...game was not marked by any spectacular plays but was consistently good. F. Gleason and N. Ware seored Harvard's only two goals, and are expected to feature in the contest with North eastern College on Wednesday and with the crash Braeburn Club organization Thursday...
...California crash, worst in nearly a year, helped to attract attention to a bill introduced into Congress last week by publicity-loving Representative Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn, requiring transport lines to provide parachutes for each & every passenger. Representative Celler's measure, he said, grew out of a bad scare he got while flying over Philadelphia. To back up his proposal, he drew liberally from a provocative article in the February Forum called "Death by Air Transport" by Lloyd S. Graham in which compulsory use of parachutes was demanded. Author Graham, onetime publicity writer for Irving Air Chute Co., made these...
Before the Graham article appeared the editors of Forum approached Transcontinental & Western Air Inc. (on whose line Knute Rockne and seven others died in a crash last April) with a proposal that Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, technical adviser of the company, write a reply for the next issue. The proposal was promptly rejected. But transport operators have not kept their objections to the passenger 'chute idea to themselves. Chief objections...
Witness of the crash was Col. Young's information chief, Frederick R. Neely. A shrewd publicity manager, he requested authority to notify newspapers of the accident to avert wild rumors, scare headlines. The Press came, saw, got answers to its questions, went away satisfied that the story was trivial. Result: news reports were brief. 98% accurate...