Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bravo for TIME's impartial presentation of air travel sentiments. Fanny Ward [whose daughter, Lady Plunket, was killed in an airplane crash (TIME, April 4)] is entitled to all the world's sympathy . . . but she should not take it upon herself to prejudice an increasingly air-minded generation...
...singles, he started out even worse with discouraging scores of 171 and 145 for his first two games. But suddenly in his third game, Mike Blazek began to hear again & again the hallowed sound that is music to a bowler's ears-the clean, choral crash that means a strike. Eight, nine, ten times in succession. Aware that something momentous was happening, excited crowds began to jam behind his alley, but Bowler Blazek refused to be ruffled. Again he rolled a solid pocket smash. Taking his stance for his last and crucial shot, Mike Blazek just perceptibly faltered...
...Woolworth Co. founders. Admitting that they were "babes in the woods," the new bosses of the Van Sweringen empire set put to simplify Allegheny's elaborate holding company substructure, have been lost in the woods ever since. Last fall's market crash forced Mr. Kolbe to liquidate his Alleghany holdings; the other two survived only to face a bitter attack by Wall Street wolves...
...Lubbock, Tex., Mrs. May Lane Post bought two bicycles, ordered them shipped to Alaska to the two Eskimos who discovered the bodies of her husband, Flyer Wiley Post, and Will Rogers after their fatal crash...
...very short, before the day of reckoning comes. The further we go in the direction we are now heading, the longer and more severe will be the period of suffering when we attempt to get into reverse--or if we do not reverse, when we come to the inevitable crash. The hope of the nation lies in Congress, backed by an articulate citizenry, to continue to take action and assume leadership...