Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittsfield, Mass., a 20-lb. snapping turtle which George B. Maddocks had caught and tied up in the back of his automobile worked its way free, crept over the front seat, snapped George Maddock's leg, causing him to lose control of his car, crash into two other automobiles...
...York bankers and financiers were as glad to see Mr. Meyer go in as they were to see Mr. Young go out. Mr. Young as Board Governor, had been largely blamed for the Board's failure to check last year's stockmarket crash. His warnings had been ineffectual, his restrictive policies barren of results. Mr. Meyer, on the other hand, is a forceful aggressive character who has known Wall Street from his youth. (He was perhaps the first man to make a thorough statistical analysis of U. S. Steel's investment possibilities...
...Memory" at Himley Hall, Worcestershire. Just eight months ago a seven-year-old boy was buried in this garden. Cycling, he had been run over by a truck. Last week his mother was laid beside him. She, young and lovely Rosemary Millicent Viscountess Ednam, perished in the mysterious airplane crash in Kent fortnight ago when six Britons were killed. The card which H. R. H. sent with his pink & red mourning roses last week read: "With love from...
Rasche. At Tempelhof aerodrome. Berlin, famed Thea Rasche had a crash, was not badly hurt...
...bull market and fancies himself a financier. On the side and from time to time he also chaffs men of less strawy mold, notably Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell (National City) for his extremely bullish utterances, his apparent unawareness of what was going on, just before the late great stockmarket crash. Otto Munson, umbrella-rib manufacturer, sells his business for $20,000 and buys everything he can on margin. Unable to go wrong in the kind of market he has to deal with, he begins to clean up, and before a year is out is worth (on paper) over a million...