Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last autumn she conceived the air-marking plan. Last week, as she received the first public acknowledgment of its success, she was too sad to appreciate it. Captain Omlie was killed fortnight ago as a passenger in the crash of the Chicago & Southern Air-Liner City of Memphis (TIME...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., largest private financial institution in the world, should, on 45 minutes notice suddenly be found to have liabilities substantially exceeding its assets, Eastern U. S. citizens would get some idea of the fantastic consternation Pacific Mutual's crash caused on the West Coast. Last year the 68-year-old company had policies amounting to $636,000,000, assets of $215,000,000, ranked No. 19 in the U. S. insurance lineup. To West Coast insurance, old Pacific Mutual was virtually what Amadeo Peter Gianninrs Bank of America is to West Coast banking...
Hearing his story, his parents in Norwood, Ohio claimed that their son had been queer ever since an airplane crash in 1922, intimated a plea of insanity...
...knots with cascades of spray bursting over his eager head. Twisting and turning at terrific speed among the breakers, Flea Boat No. 1 overhauled the destroyer H. M. S. Amazon which was doing her best to dodge, fired at deadly close range a dummy torpedo and saw it crash against the Amazon's side for a direct...
...Bowles knew Benton as ace assistant to Lord & Thomas Adman Albert Lasker in Chicago. Benton knew Bowles as a crack writer who was turning out some $4,000,000 worth of copy annually for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn in Manhattan. Few months before the stock-market crash, Adman Benton, then 29, and Adman Bowles, then 28, went into the New York Secretary of State's office, came out as Benton & Bowles, Inc. Glib Partner Bowles began to write copy. Aggressive Partner Benton went out to sell...