Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college. Tuberculous since he was 17, he was bed-ridden most of his years, lived a life as inactive as his grandfather's was exciting. He kept financial reports by his bedside, was sharp enough to get out of the stock-market before the 1929 crash. In search of dry air, he was carried to Egypt, Spain, then to the U. S. Southwest for good. Not since 1923 had he seen a football game with sharp-faced President Walter Dill Scott, of Northwestern, great ferret of endowments, great friend of Deerings. Roger died at 51 last fortnight in Albuquerque...
Such slams at Air Bureau efficiency kept the atmosphere of the inquiry tense but quiet for four days, with only one consolation for the accused Federal agency: The committee exonerated the Government airway keeper at Kirksville, Mo., near the scene of the Cutting crash. On the fifth day, however, as the committee agreed to extend its inquiry, came testimony of a different sort which finally drew blood in the exasperated yowl from Assistant Director Martin...
...taken away in trucks, at least from one side of narrow streets like Holyoke and Linden, so that parking a car would not mean charging as far as possible into a snow bank, leaving the rear end protruding into the street-and walking hurriedly away to avoid seeing the crash when the next car comes along...
...conclusion of the investigation by the Department of Commerce and by American Airlines at the scene of the crash more than 20 men were employed to rake the entire swamp area and to assemble in one place any and all parts of the airplane discovered...
...When Max Gordon announced that he was going to present a dramatized version of Novelist Edith Wharton's frosty little masterpiece, the first thing that came to the minds of those who had read Ethan Frome was that the producer would have a devilish time staging the sledding crash which is the tragedy's ironic climax. As it turns out, there need have been no such public anxiety. Between them, Producer Gordon, the Playwrights Davis and Designer Jo Mielziner have achieved a rare triumph of art and showmanship...