Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three mentioned by name were Chrysler, General Motors and Pullman) had inventories totaling $232,456,000. On Sept. 30, 1937 the same 50 had inventories of $285,606,000. In short, these concerns had more goods on hand when the current depression began than they did shortly after th crash in 1929. These figures were presented to President Roosevelt last week as a refutation of the contention of businessmen that fear of New Deal oppression caused the present slump. When a corporation is uncertain about the future, the argument ran, it does not stock up heavily with materials and supplies...
...Leighty Johnson brought suit for $502,539 damages against Western Air Express Corp. and others for having deprived her of 20 future years' support when her husband, Jungle-Explorer Martin Elmer Johnson died following last January's air crash near Burbank, Calif. (TIME, Jan. 25). Among defendants she named her sister-in-law, Frieda Johnson Cripts, in a legal move to find out what claims if any Mrs. Cripts has on the explorer's estate...
...making $12,000 as manager of Cincinnati's Hotel Gibson. Two years later, having jacked the Gibson's yearly net from $95,000 to $333,000, he was hired away to manage the vast Hotel New Yorker, opened in Manhattan ten weeks after the stock-market crash...
...Mexican temperament is the fact that the mountain road was begun from Tamazunchale and from Mexico City, the center portion, and by far the most harrowing portion, being left to luck and the last. Aside from the fact that the road is unpaved, that great boulders are apt to crash down from above on the slightest provocation, and that droves of burros usually pick the narrowest part of the road they can find steadfastly to ignore any blasts the wayworn traveller may coax from his fatigued horn, huge, dense clouds settle themselves on the road the better to view...
When a photographer from the Boston American tried to crash Stillman Infirmary yesterday to get pictures of five gastro-intestinal cases there, officials said...