Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile, a Ford sedan, suddenly swung from the curb, where it was parked at 9:00 o'clock yesterday morning, forcing three cars to swerve aside to avoid a crash. The runway vehicle then proceeded to roll down Quincy Street and smashed into a four-foot post on the opposite side of the street...
...father of the late Prohibition experiment and diligent overseer of Senatorial campaign morality, last week went to the White House in his capacity as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. News that President Roosevelt had secretly aided France in purchasing U. S. airplanes, revealed accidentally by the crash of a new Douglas bomber in California (TIME, Feb. 6), had upset and excited Military Affairs.* In the White House, President Roosevelt began to lecture Chairman Sheppard on his reasons for helping France, using background facts and confidential reports so arresting that Chairman Sheppard presently told the President he really...
...misguided hopes-but speculators, who might well have gotten out of the market after the TIMEline's sharp drop in April, would have missed the 30 to 40 point rise that took place subsequently. Chart readers would have noted that the TIMEline in September 1929, before the market crash, broke through its previous bottom (made in August...
...Bailey, heard himself convicted of "one of the most appalling frauds which ever disfigured the commercial reputation of this country." The collapse of Promoter Hatry's $10,000,000 forged bond bubble in September 1929 had sapped confidence in The City, helped to precipitate the U. S. stockmarket crash, and hastened worldwide Depression. Hatry was sentenced to 14 years in prison, two -of them at hard labor. Last week, having served nine years of his sentence and having impressed Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare with his model conduct, Swindler Hatry walked free...
...fierce, misshapen reptile--possibly a Dodatmor throwback--slithers up to the window and stares maliciously at Vag with evil eyes. He opens his well-toothed jaws and measures the distance to Vag's head. There is a metallic crash as teeth meet the iron skull. Vicious fool, you cannot get Vag. See, Vag does not even blink. This is mere phantasmagoria compared to The Four encountered on The Bottom. They were truly fearsome, especially to one numbed with the icy breath of the Great Fear, one who cannot fight back. The Four had come at him--zing, zing, zing, zing...