Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, protested against any cut of the General Board's figure, but had to accept the 18-cruiser limit. Secretary of the Navy Adams, a Conference delegate, last month told the Senate Naval Affairs Committee that he had held out for 21 cruisers until Britain threatened to crash the conference unless the U. S. compromised on 18 (TIME, May 26). The question: If the difference between 21 and 18 U. S. cruisers was so important to Britain, why were not those three ships just as essential...
Already these myriads of power plants, tractor works, mines, factories and whole new cities for workers have meant to U. S. business since the stockmarket crash $450,000,000 in contracts now being executed. Moreover Amtorg, the principal trade representative of the Soviet Government in Manhattan, has bought more than $211,580,000 worth of U. S. goods in the past six years...
...Attack. With no shots fired and distances immense, the engagement of the "backbone" by cruisers and destroyer was unimpressive, inconclusive. Then out of nowhere in the heavens over the battle fleet, aiming at a point 300 yards abeam the Salt Lake City (to avoid possibility of a crash), one fighting plane after another shot screaming down in power dives of attack, at speeds (250 m. p. h. and more) impossible to meet with defensive gunfire. These were followed by the "smokers," larger planes flying low to lay five-mile banks of white obscurity behind which, from nowhere on the battle...
...cured the country of the desire to speculate. To the average American who has lived through the last four or five years of bull markets, speculation means easy money, and the idea has become so firmly instilled in the popular mind that it will take more than one disastrous crash to wipe...
Screams of terror were silenced by the concussion. Followed the tinkling crash of an immense chandelier. Casino attendants rushed in to count the dead, succor the wounded. By what amounted to a miracle nobody had been so much as scratched. In a half-hour the demolished table had been carted out, the chandelier swept up, and croupiers were again crying "Mesdames, Messieurs, faites vos jeux...