Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tiny stern deck abaft the anti-aircraft guns. A petty officer with a megaphone scrambled to the top of the stern range finder. "By the numbers, jump!" he bellowed. "One-two-three-HIPE!!" As one man. 1,300 seamen sprang in the air to land with a shattering crash directly over the cabin of "Ginger" Boyle...
...Edsel was able to give an account of the Ford family's losses in the Detroit banks. Grand total of Ford (father, son & motor company) funds tied up in the crash was $63,200,000 in deposits, loans and advances. Of this total $18,708,000 was tied up by the failure of Detroit's First National, the rest by the failure of the Guardian Detroit Union Group. Total recovered to date: $18,000,000, leaving over $45,000,000 lost or still unrecovered...
Edsel Ford likewise told his story of what occurred just before the crash. On Feb. 13, 1933 Secretary Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudson Motor) and Arthur Atwood Ballantine, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, visited Detroit, asked the Fords to permit the freezing of $7,500,000 of their deposits in Union Guardian Trust Co., asked them to put up $5,000,000 capital for a new mortgage company which was to assist in getting a $49,000,000 loan for the Guardian from...
...eggs her son into spilling a bucket of fresh fish over the fiancée's dress, finally trades Count Mario for her son's guardian. Good sequence: Ann Harding watching her first lover take off on a flight to Bagdad which ends in a fatal crash a few seconds after the picture starts...
Bound from Brussels to London with eight passengers, mostly Britons going home for the holidays, the Imperial Airways transport Apollo drilled through a milky fog over western Belgium. As she neared the coast, between Bruges and Ostend. Apollo groped lower and lower. CRASH! She hit the mast of a wireless station, snapped it off, flopped to earth. FLASH! Flames shot high. Said one of the crew of the wireless station, afterward: "There was not a chance for the passengers or the two pilots. There was not a sound or a cry from the cabin...