Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figures for compilation by the U. S. Labor Department. Not until the 1930 Census is taken in April can the true picture of labor conditions throughout the land be revealed. When President Hoover happily announced last month that U. S. employment had at last turned upward following the stockmarket crash, it was at best an intelligent guess. New York State Industrial Commissioner Frances Perkins declared last week that January unemployment in her state was the worst in 15 years, that labor conditions were "very serious." While the U. S. Labor Department insisted that employment would be normal in 90 days...
...keepers unlocked the door of Robber Spiers' cell. Still cringing he took a few steps between his guards, then with a sudden scream of terror, sprang away, vaulted over the pipe railing of the cell gallery, and plunged down three stories to crash, a sodden neck-broken corpse at the very feet of the assembled Justices of the Peace...
...such delays and losses in future, the National Building Trades Employers' Association last week met the executive board of the Building Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor at Tampa, Fla. To the meeting President Hoover, vitally interested in expanding construction as an antidote for the stockmarket crash, sent a message: "To find a method for the amicable settlement of jurisdictional disputes is indeed one of the most important. questions in our labor relations. It is capable of solution. . . . I am indeed glad to wish success to your endeavors...
...half months prior, flyers Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland vanished on a flight from Teller, Alaska to the Nanuk with supplies (TIME, Jan. 6). The bodies of Eielson and Borland were not in the snow-drifted plane. The motor had been flung 100 ft. by the crash. The untouched supplies suggested they had not lived to attempt to trudge to shelter. The Nanuk notified all search parties, sent men to dig in the drifts for the bodies, to scour the adjacent coast. Last remaining ray of hope: skiis which Eielson and Borland carried with them were missing from...
...world's worst air crash happened last fortnight-16 people killed in a T. A. T. Maddux trimotored Ford. As a result, the Department of Commerce made a new flying rule. No transport plane may fly lower than 500 ft. If trouble forces him that low, the pilot must seek a landing place at once...