Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McNair, the bridge tender, was the only one who saw it happen, and there was nothing he could do. To let a tug through one morning last week he had just opened the drawbridge over the muddy Appomattox River a mile from Hopewell, Va. when he heard a tearing crash. Twisting, he saw a big Greyhound bus southbound from Richmond skid through the safety gate, plunge with its screaming passengers off the open bridge. Nothing came up from the 24-foot depth but some oil, bubbling and streaking the surface of the yellow river...
...words Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. last week defended himself from the reproaches of the silver world. The reproaches had been leveled at him because the U. S. Treasury had just subjected the silver markets of London, Shanghai, Bombay, Manhattan and Montreal to as pretty a market crash as a speculator could have devised...
Famed as Harlem's pioneer in Ethiopia long before there was any war, "Colonel" Julian first came inescapably to the Emperor's attention by alighting with a devastating crash almost on top of His Majesty in what was then Ethiopia's only airplane (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930). During the current struggle, Addis Ababa has seen Harlem's "Black Eagle" flapping about in Sam Browne belt and natty uniform but denied a commission in Ethiopia's Imperial Air Force. He was several times kindly received by Haile Selassie, once to deny hotly that Italians had hired...
...stock speculation. In that orgy of 'prosperity' slum conditions went unheeded, better education was forgotten, usurious interest charges mounted, child labor continued, starvation wages were too often the rule. . . . Mammon ruled America. Those are the years to remember-those fool's paradise years before the crash came. Downward Spiral. "This nation slipped spirally downward, ever downward, to the inevitable point when the mechanics of civilization came to a dead stop on March 3, 1933. You and I need not rehearse the four years of disaster and gloom. . . . You and I can well remember the overwhelming demand that...
...Marquess of Londonderry was resoundingly dropped last week by solid, bourgeois Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who then proceeded to accentuate the crash. What honest Stanley did to friendly Edith the insulted peeress herself revealed with an icy statement from Londonderry House that it will not be the scene this year of Mayfair's swankest ball on the eve of Parliament's reopening Dec. 3. Concluded the irate Marchioness of Londonderry: "The Lord and Lady Londonderry offered their house as usual to the Prime Minister but Mr. Baldwin considered the present moment not opportune...