Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of April 20, p. 17, under heading "Fall of Michigan," you state that when this tree crashed some of the pieces were hurled 500 yards. Some trees! Some crash-to hurl pieces of the tree more than a quarter of a mile...
Stockmarket Flayed. Gambling in stocks is international. Britons, Germans, Frenchmen, the King of Spain, Chinese, the King of Afghanistan and speculators of every race were participants in the U. S. crash of 1929. Naturally, last week, the most popular speech at the Conference the only one interrupted by incessant laughter and cheers was a great flaying of the New York stockmarket by Chicago's droll, drawling "Mel" Traylor...
...rowboat renting float went next, slipped under the bridge successfully, then swung inshore again, ripped loose two big bathing barges and another rowboat float. Out in midstream again went the floating mass of derelicts, slowly spinning round and round. With a crash it broke against the Ernest Walz Bridge, but the Ernest Walz stood firm. Spectators cheered hilariously as the bathhouses went down with towels flying...
...Mildred McCoy of It's a Wise Child, is more or less kept by three very dull fellows, each of whom imagines her to be his own true love. One is a banker, another an artist, another a fisticuffer. She milks them all for money, then the stockmarket crash comes, leaving her men broke. But Miss McCoy, being such a smart girl, has invested their money wisely. She brings them all together, gives their money back, goes out of their lives. It is an awful show...
From the week's sessions Col. Young emerged with an acute headache and the heightened respect of thoughtful airmen. Immediately after the Rockne crash (the cause of which remains unexplained save that a wing was ripped off in midair) he ordered a Fokker to Wright Field, Ohio for rigorous wing tests. The result did not please him.* Fearing a repetition of the Rockne crash, Col. Young quietly ordered all operators to withdraw their Fokkers pending inspection-which he also intended to keep quiet. But the story was broken by astute newshawks who saw certain of the operators wheeling their...