Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snowman in May. A happy man devoted to his job, Secretary Mellon was kept awake at night by no great problems of government finance. Because his department operates one year behind current business conditions (though the Government's spending is planned a half-year ahead), the stock-crash of 1929 was only a far-off warning of coming trouble. Last July the Treasury contained the fat surplus...
...heavy fog hung over Kansas fields near Emporia one morning last week as Edward Baker, farm boy of Bazaar, set forth to feed his cattle. Along about ten o'clock he heard an explosion, then a crash. Soon afterward, in a nearby pasture, Edward Baker came upon the flaming carcass of a ten passenger Fokker of the Transcontinental & Western Air line. Its eight occupants lay dead or dying...
...airline wants its passengers to think they are threatened by unavoidable accidents. But when a crash occurs and a damage suit results, the airline sometimes pleads Act of God. The underlying question: Is an unforeseen accident necessarily unforeseeable? Last fortnight saw two developments in the dispute of "God v. Pilot" (TIME...
...decision in favor of Curtiss Flying Service was set aside by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn, and a retrial ordered in a $25,000 damage suit. Last fortnight a jury again opined that the Curtiss pilot was not blamable for a fatal crash resulting from an air bump...
...Sweden's Capt. Einar-Paal Lundborg, actual rescuer of Nobile, was killed in a crash last month (TIME...