Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only three days before a Royal Dutch plane had cracked up in Persia. Six days before a KLM Fokker had killed six in a crash near Amsterdam. Seven were killed in a crash in April, and six died in the wreck of KLM's famed Uiver ("Stork") last December in Syria...
...Morgan & Co. Last week as a preliminary to the payment of dividends, the last of that bond issue was paid off 100? on the dollar. No sooner had ore shipments started in 1930 than the prices of copper and zinc, Hudson Bay's principal products, began to crash to historic lows. In 1932 Hudson Bay Mining stock could have been bought for 75? per share. Last week it was selling at $15 per share. Profits before depletion in 1934 were $1,500,000. Including a small amount of ore handled for other nearby mines, Hudson Bay's production...
...Crash! The motor car of the Chancellor of Austria and Frau Schuschnigg hurtled into a tree near Linz last week. She was instantly killed, her neck broken. He was flung on soft earth, missing a kilometer stone by a finger's length. The portly Schuschnigg nurse rolled over & over, clutching safely to her breast the Chancellor's 9-year-old son Kurt...
Many a Wartime flyer lost his life because incendiary bullets set his gasoline tank afire. Many a peacetime flyer perishes in a crash from which he would have emerged with nothing but bruises had not his fuel burst into flame. A new fuel designed to stop such tragedies was demonstrated this week at New York University's Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics by its inventor, a towering, beefy, Prussian-born chemist named Adolph Prussin. The fuel, called "Solene," is gasoline which has been turned into a solid...
...year-old President Jack Frye flared up with a blunt statement squarely laying blame for the crash not on TWA but on the Department of Commerce. Said he: "The real cause of the accident was that Pilot Bolton attempted to come down through a ceiling reported by the Bureau of Air Commerce observer at Kirksville as 7,000 ft. ... What he actually found was practically a zero-zero condition. . . . The accident occurred . . . solely because the favorable landing conditions reported by the observer at Kirksville did not exist...