Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fatal as accidents that happen below that speed. Behind the booklet is last year's record road toll-40,300 dead. Dramatic centrepiece of "Death Begins at 40" is Grant Wood's painting, Death on the Ridge Road, which shows a big red truck about to crash head-on into a black sedan at a hilltop curve. Pages of statistics prove that most fatal accidents occur to experienced male drivers in the prime of life going straight ahead on dry roads in clear weather-but at high speed. Most arresting fact: In all its history...
...Cyrus Parker, the first Iron Fireman president, was killed in an air crash. Harry Banfield was badly hurt in the same crash, but recovered to take over. Iron Fireman has always made some kind of a profit-$484,000 is the average for the past ten years. But for two years, despite all the slighting things his salesmen have been saying about oil, Harry Banfield has been tinkering with an oil burner...
...bolster the stock market, the Government (1 asked the big banks to buy stocks as they did in the 1929 crash, 2 reduced margin requirements, 3 offered to lend RFC funds to speculators, 4 called in several issues of Federal bonds, 5 urged insurance companies to invest more funds in stocks...
...Since the crash of collective security, there is nothing left but balance of power to maintain an equilibrium," Hopper said, "but just how to get Britain and America to co-operate is always sort of a difficulty...
...airlines' St. Paul shops. Nonetheless, B. A. C. last week suddenly cracked down, suspended for 15 days Northwest's license to carry passengers because of failure to maintain equipment up to required standards. This was a slap in the face for Northwest Airlines, which until this crash due to a structural failure, had the enviable record of eleven years' flying over difficult mountain terrain without one fatal accident...