Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violence. Aliquippa's police chief decided once that the C. I. O. pickets looked threatening, tossed a few tear gas bombs at them. Strikers battered a U. S. mail truck which they thought was taking ammunition into the plant. A few hardy non-unionists tried to crash the picket lines, best scrap being put up by irate old H. L. Queen, longtime company storekeeper. "I've got a job and I'm going to it," cried he. When pickets seized him, H. L. Queen sank his teeth into a striker's hand (see cut), was dragged...
...House Office Building one day last week padded an alert young German shepherd dog named Rex, a harness with a thick handgrip buckled around his shoulders. To the grip clung Rex's master, Dr. Harry P. Claus of Arlington, Va., a consulting engineer blinded in an airplane crash three years ago. Man and guide turned into a room where a sub-committee of the Interstate Commerce Committee was considering unfavorably a bill to require railroads to permit blind men's dogs to travel with them on trains...
...fast start in this race was almost spoiled when the Eliot coxswain got his bearings mixed and swung onto the Kirkland eight; only Haines' yell and quick pull on the tiller ropes averted a nasty crash and the Elephants dropped back about a third of a length while this was going...
...speech explaining its genesis. Inspired by the over-complexity of professional economists on the subject of the business cycle, the original Dawes plan was to reduce the last three big depressions to their simplest terms, draw parallels for the current guidance of businessmen. Putting the months of the stockmarket crashes of 1873, 1893 and 1929 on one baseline, he superimposed charts of durable goods activity for the following ten-year periods. In each of the earlier depressions pig iron production & prices began to recover exactly five years and six months after the crisis. Banker Dawes placed his bet accordingly. Stockmarket...
Among post-NRA expedients of the Administration which make Hugh Samuel Johnson hot under the collar is the undistributed profits tax. Wrote General Johnson in his Scripps-Howard column last month: "I know a small company that was started with adequate capital in 1929. The crash hit it just as it was getting under way. By some miracle of management it was kept alive through the long valley of the shadow of industrial death from 1929 to 1935. ... In 1936 for the first time it made money—enough money to pay off its debts...