Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American business is a hurdler facing a series of new untried jumps. Of course you can dope him over some of the hurdles but sooner or later will come a crash...
Upstairs Mrs. Speer was putting their three young children to bed when she heard a sudden crash downstairs, like an exploding light bulb. When she got downstairs she found her husband with blood streaming from his arm and breast. There were two jagged holes in the window...
...Ransom Eli Olds is the only man in the U. S. with two automobiles named after him (Reo, Oldsmobile). The white-crested old founder-chairman has watched his company pile up $9,000,000 of deficits in four years. The Michigan bank crash tied up 70% of the company's funds. Working capital declined from $20,000,000 to about $7,000,000. Early this year Founder Olds, now 70, emerged from retirement to win a proxy battle for control, has since been active in a thoroughgoing internal reorganization. An important point in any merger talk is Reo's truck...
...stockmarket crash scarcely caused more of a national rumpus than the decision, in November 1929, to move Amos and Andy's radio time to 7 p. m. New York time. The country had learned to use Andy's word "regusted." The Secretary of State of Colorado and 100,000 other listeners in the West plainly stated their "regust" at the change because they could not get home in time for the broadcast. The "Amos and Andy Rebellion," which seriously threatened Pepsodent with a boycott, was only quelled when Gosden and Correll agreed to broadcast twice nightly...
...still has a few tricks up its sleeve. ''The chills and fever of capitalism, observed since its infancy, shake and burn its whole body more drastically as it approaches old age." Wall Street, he implies, has not yet seen its last boom or its last crash. Author Soule disagrees with many a Republican who thinks a revolution took place when Roosevelt was elected. He sums up the New Deal's accomplishments and aims: "Mr. Roosevelt did a lot of reforestation in our governmental landscape; many were tending the new saplings; but it was nobody's business...