Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planes came in with greater accuracy and dropped three eggs directly on the structure itself. . . . During this attack . . . the Chinese anti-aircraft with, I believe, .50 calibre machine guns brought down a plane directly in front of the building. It was impossible to get more than just the actual crash because things were happening entirely too fast...
...This has long been a sore point with ardent New Dealers and last week it was sorer than ever. Forced to resign after disagreement with associates, Kemper Simpson, SEC economic adviser since 1934, furiously ticked off the SEC for relaxing registration requirements, blamed the severity of the current market crash on its laxity...
...argument that Harvard boys should not be allowed to have autos was brought up anew. Although the fall season is an especially dangerous one due to the frequency of the coming-out dances, hardly a week goes by all year that some student is not injured in a serious crash...
...Love was so engrossed with his instruction of several green oars near the bow that he failed to notice the fast-approaching obstruction until it was too late. The crash resulted in a long gash torn in the starboard side, and the ship settled rapidly...
...Graduate School of Business Administration dwelt long and lovingly on commodity prices as a reflection both of U. S. trade and of the state of the world. Be cause of trade barriers and the nationalistic spirit, commodity prices began a general decline in 1925 which continued after the crash of 1929. On war demand and business revival early this year they had a strong comeback until the speculative collapse in commodities in England coupled with President Roosevelt's statement that certain U. S. commodity prices were rising too fast. Now commodity prices are nearing the 1926 level. Four years...