Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with their organizing illegal. And they were desperately disappointed, for instead of gaining they lost ground. Many industries, distrustful of the A. F. of L., encouraged their employes to form company unions. The A. F. of L., with the aid of the National Labor Relations Board, was unable to crash the steel industry when Weirton Steel worsted them in court, failed to crash the automobile industry when Franklin Roosevelt negotiated a settlement of the threatened automobile strike on the basis of proportional union representation.* After 21 months of Section ya, the A. F. of L. had actually lost ground...
...week, Maxim Gorki seemed a mighty symbol of Soviet power & progress. A small training plane, gnatlike by comparison, flew alongside it. Spellbound moujiks cheered as giant and gnat disappeared in the hazy distance. Short while later a motorist drove up, babbled excitedly about how he had seen Maxim Gorki crash. Hardly had the news leaked out when instantly Soviet censorship clamped down. Not until ten hours later did the world know that the largest land-plane ever built had really met with disaster...
...getting a "joyride" in reward for faithful service. On the ground, at Moscow Central Airdrome, 32 other shockworkers were waiting their turn to go up. Looking up, they saw the pilot of the tiny training plane stunting, in violation of orders. They saw him come out of a loop, crash head on into Maxim Gorki. With the little plane wedged in its wing between two motors, Maxim Gorki began falling. The pilots cut the switches, regained control, began gliding towards the airport...
Worst airplane tragedy in history, the Maxim Gorki disaster was Russia's third major air crash. In September 1933 five of her highest aviation officials, along with several other persons, died in a crash near Moscow. Two months later the super-airliner K7, then the world's largest land-plane, killed 14 in a crash at Kharkov. Mournfully last week the Kremlin announced a State funeral for the latest victims, compensation for their families...
...assets National Steel is small as U. S. steel companies go. Its ingot capacity is less than one-tenth that of sprawling U. S. Steel Corp. Yet National was a Depression star, having made money in every year since it was born 30 days after the 1929 Crash. In the first quarter of this year, when eleven of the 15 leading steelmakers were in the black, National led the field with profits...