Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Locomotive manufacturing is a feast or famine business and since depression hit the railroads after the 1929 crash it has been all famine. After four years of famine, Baldwin was so short of working capital that in 1935 it went into reorganization. But last week it had more than $30,000,000 worth of orders on the books, and things looked far rosier-but not for locomotives...
Pegler left the American in 1915, worked three years on the Chicago Journal, where he broke in a couple of cubs named Lowell Thomas and Ben Hecht. In 1918 Pegler joined Terry Ramsaye in Manhattan to crash the moving picture business. Ramsaye stuck and became the historian of the industry, but after a few years Pegler was hired at $250 a week by a company which promptly folded. He went back to newspapering, first on the Tribune, then the Daily News, finally the Mirror. When he retired from the Mirror he was writing all the editorials and Editor Emile Gauvreau...
From the opening crash of the Kyrie to the contrapuntal splendors of the Sanctus and the flowing tranquillity of the Agnus Dei, choir, soloists and instrumentalists did themselves proud last week, mightily impressed visiting critics with the musical authority of Director Jones. As for Ifor Jones, he has made no secret of his ambition to do in Bethlehem what Leopold Stokowski did in Philadelphia. Stokowski was also a church organist before he took over the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...picked up by the gasoline boat Amacitia off the coast of Nova Scotia. They had rowed 80 miles. A few minutes later, eight miles away, the Amacitia sighted another dory with four men from the Parker. One boat rowed all the way to land. Within 40 hours of the crash every last man had turned up, little the worse for wear. Captain Albert Hines of the Rose calculated that he and his own dory-mates had rowed 150 miles. The others didn't bother to figure carefully...
Still plugging their once-sensational theory that economics makes history what it is, the Beards explore the underground economic forces that brought about Coolidge prosperity. With the aloof amusement of two moralists who stayed sober while the rest of the world got tight, they investigate the causes of the crash, the closing of the banks, the New Deal and government by Brain Trust...