Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before the 1929 stockmarket crash the Vans bought from the Armour and Swift packing interests certain terminal and belt line railroad properties in North Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo. The price was about $19,000,000. In the next few months the Vans bought control of Missouri Pacific...
Awarded. Posthumously, to Flyer Wiley Post, killed last year with Will Rogers in an airplane crash in Alaska (TIME, Aug. 26, 1935); the medal of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, civil aviation's highest honor; in Tulsa, Okla. Oilman Frank Phillips of Bartlesville, Okla., backer of many Post flights, made the presentation to Widow Mae Post...
...whereby we can all safely make some Cash?" Unaware at that point were the Cooke brothers that they were about to become the greatest bankers in the country, to finance the greatest industrial enterprise in U. S. history up to that time (Northern Pacific), to fail with the greatest crash then on record. A blue-eyed, energetic Episcopalian whose only frivolity was playing his flute, Jay Cooke was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1821, grew up in a hot Abolitionist country, served his apprenticeship in St. Louis, got into Philadelphia banking at the age of 18. Since his marriage...
Official Washington first became aware of Gus Gennerich one night in the tense days before the 1933 inauguration when Messrs. Garner, Rainey, Robinson, Harrison, Byrns and others came to confer at the house of the President-elect on East 65th Street, Manhattan. Their deliberations were interrupted by a terrible crash on the floor below, the sound of falling furniture, of breaking glass. Several conferees anxiously rushed down, found young John Roosevelt flat on the dining room floor amid several shattered family relics, found Gus grinning, dusting off his clothes, muttering, "Now, darn your little hide, I guess...
...fizzle. In the first place the story is a mere chronological biography possessing practically no dramatic force, and in the second place Laughton's magnificent voice is toned down for at least half the picture to a dismal half-whisper that resembles the sound of a fly trying to crash through a screen door. It is not a great sin for such as Laughton and Korda to fail; the evil lies in refusing to admit the failure and claiming for it new heights of cinematic excellence. It must be said in justice to "Rembrandt" that costuming and photography are excellent...