Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liner drew close it steered slightly to port of the lightship and speed was reduced to 16 knots. The oscillograph detector was not used to find the distance, but the liner's position was computed by cross-bearings from shore radio stations. Few minutes before the crash, while the beacon indicated the lightship to be three degrees off the starboard bow, the signals were suddenly lost. The oscillograph detector went dead also. Then the lightship's fog whistle was heard. Every officer on the Olympic's bow agreed the sound was off the starboard bow. To play...
...Freshman Jubilee last night held no charms for George Ford '37, star athlete of the Freshman Class. Ford, while in the process of decorating the Union for the festive occasion toppled from an 18-foot ladder and came down with a crash on the cement floor. As he struck the floor, the ladder, not to be outdone, came down...
...stock certificates so high that it cracked and crumbled. Bidding against Eaton. Insull's holding companies paid not only regular 1929 prices, but battle prices for the shares of his operating companies-$384 a share for Commonwealth Edison, $296 a share for Peoples' Gas. Then came the crash. Eaton backed off without control but Samuel Insull had not won. A good part of his fortune had disappeared in the fight. The rest disappeared in trying to keep his fantastic holding companies from tumbling. He had wrecked his own empire. April 10, 1932 was his Waterloo...
...years at hard labor. And so last week he went to meet Mme Guillotine before the Town Hall of Aix-en-Provence. The end of drama was not yet. Strapped quickly to the board, he was pushed beneath the knife. The executioner tripped the lever, the triangular blade crashed down-and jammed, half way down. "Imbeciles!" bellowed Murderer Sarret. "Be quick can't you!" For ten minutes he lay with his head on the block while perspiring, embarrassed workmen argued and tinkered. Executioner Deibler clutched at his weak heart. Then up went the knife to crash down again, successfully...
Near Sunbury, Pa. one night three other Army flyers in a disabled bomber dropped flares and went over the side, floating safely earthward as they watched the ship crash and burn. At Cheyenne, Wyo. an Air Corps Reserve pilot who might have bailed out when his motor died chose instead to risk a dead-stick landing, climbed unhurt from his wrecked ship...