Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copy of TIME, Nov. 6, under the heading Army & Navy, I note, in your description of the fog crash of the U. S. S. Chicago, an error by insinuation...
...summer of 1929 Mr. Fox was hurt in an automobile accident, laid up for several months. Whether lor this or for other reasons, neither Mr. Fox nor his bankers took the obvious step of selling to the public new stock in Fox Film and Fox Theatres. Then the market crash of October 1929 threw the whole problem of refinancing Mr. Fox into the banks...
...addition, which made Mrs. Radcliffe's novels so popular at one time. Jack rises from the labouring crew to marry the boss' daughter, and, incidentally, to break the boss and supplant him in the business. Unfortunately, this bold adventurer becomes overconfident, and in the end the stock market crash gets him. His wife, played by Fay Wray, sticks by him, and the piece has a happy ending...
...Straumfjord, with whom he was flying to Medford, Ore. to operate on a colleague. Leaving the airport the pilot circled gingerly up through the fog, edging perilously near the hills which rise abruptly to the west. Suddenly a wing tip gouged a tree on the hilltop. Down the ship crashed. It broke apart, caught fire. In an instant Stewardess Libby Wurgaft had the cabin door open. Four times she entered the blazing cabin, each time helped bring out an injured passenger. But nobody could save Dr. Coffey and the other two passengers on his side of the cabin. All three...
...Fortnight ago Department of Justice agents said they were convinced that an underworldling had traveled in the plane several days before the crash, had concealed an explosive among the blankets in the plane's lavatory, for fear he would be searched at his destination. The explosive lay among the blankets until it fell to the floor...