Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...placed in a native umiak to be towed to Point Barrow. From Will Rogers' coat pocket fell a newspaper clipping, a picture of his 18-year-old Daughter Mary, playing in Maine in a summer theatre performance of Ceiling Zero, which has for its climax a fatal airplane crash. At Point Barrow the bodies were placed in the tiny Mission Hospital. Then Sergeant Morgan went to his radio station to tell the world about the end of an Arctic holiday of which Will Rogers had written: "We are sure having a great time. . . . You know who I bet would...
...Athens newsorgan Anexartitos reported former King "Gorgeous" Georgios II so enraged at Premier Tsaldaris that he was conferring secretly with the leader of Greece's lately suppressed revolution, foxy old Eleutherios Venizelos, who has just lost a chunk of his fat wife's fat fortune in the crash of Paris' Travelers Bank. The onetime...
...mounted on wheels and driven by one Paul C. Brown of Oklahoma City coasted down a 1,181-ft. hill and knocked him and his assistant off their feet, near the finish line of the All-American Soap Box Derby which they were trying to broadcast. At the crash, timid Mrs. Betty Searles fainted. After it, daring Maurice E. Bates of Anderson, Ind. won the Soap Box Derby and a four-year college scholarship offered by Chevrolet Motor...
Last week the Salt Lake City Tribune, under an eight-column headline. 7 L. D. S. MEMBERS DIE IN CRASH, front-paged the finding of the crushed and disfigured bodies of seven Latter Day Saints at the bottom of a 70-foot embankment over which their car had skidded...
Many economists scoffed at installment buying in 1928, blamed it for the market crash of 1929, predicted that it would disappear from U. S. business life. Yet installment selling has withstood Depression better than most other economic devices of the Turbulent Twenties. Particularly has it held its own in the automobile business, as the earnings of two of the biggest automobile finance companies dramatically testify. While nearly every motor company sank into the red manufacturing cars. Commercial Investment Trust and Commercial Credit continued to make handsome profits from financing the sale of the same cars...