Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hurt in the crash, a chief petty officer (Pat O'Brien) directs the lowering of a roomy rescue bell which fastens over the hatch, permits a rescue to be conducted in comfort and style. No cineminventions, both the rescue bell and the escape lung are in service in the submarine division of the Navy, have been developed since the S-4 and S-51 disasters. For the absorbing technical accuracy of the film, credit goes to Navy-minded Director Lloyd Bacon, son of the late Actor Frank Bacon (Lightnin'). Director Bacon joined the Navy at the start...
...been actively associated with peace groups. Describing herself as only an observer and "no expert on international law," she traced in her lecture the decline of the anti-war reaction after the war and the rise of the new militarism which came on the heels of the Wall Street crash of 1929. Nothing the new military enthusiasm of the German people, she termed Hitler a "complete religious fanatic" and called his rise to power the most important event since...
...fatigue," the release reads, "that causes a driver to doze for a moment, or, through inattention, fail to note a vehicle that has come to a stop just ahead in the same laue of travel. But it is speed, often increasing under these circumstances, that results in the fatal crash...
...shown by the fact that bank loans for commercial purposes have risen steadily all year, though industry has been receding and new security issues have been virtually frozen. Until very recently this has been worrisome only to investment bankers forced to scratch for commissions. But the market crash has made the matter headline news by damming up some $150,000,000 in new security offerings which underwriters dare not release for fear of getting stung like Edward B. Smith...
HOLLYWOOD THROUGH THE BACK DOOR - E. Nils Holstius - Longmans, Green ($2.50). Open-mouthed travelog of an English gramophone executive who tried to crash Hollywood as a scenarist, sometimes roamed Los Angeles disguised as a bum; told with minute, deadly earnestness as if he were the first white man to see the place...