Word: crashing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...career of spectacular flying, sniffed the wind at Floyd Bennett Field one dawn last week. He glanced toward the head of the runway where mechanics were fuelling a huge Bleriot monoplane named for the late, famed Joseph LeBrix. He glanced toward the far end where two fire trucks, a crash wagon and an ambulance waited ominously. Grinning, he muttered "Eh, Bien." Then he and another seasoned French pilot named Maurice Rossi kissed their weeping mechanics goodbye, kissed the astonished field manager, climbed into the Joseph LeBrix. No one at Floyd Bennett Field had ever seen such a takeoff. With...
...plain or plateau of hidden rocks the air will be lightly and uniformly ionized over large areas and there will be practically no cloud-to-earth lightning flashes. But where the underground profile is jagged with peaks and valleys, the irregular ionic counterparts in the air induce lightning to crash down the ionic ladders...
...reports were correct, cash looked better than a railroad too to Leonor Fresnel Loree who last year bought for his rich little Delaware & Hudson 500,000 shares of New York Central at an average of $20 a share. Before the July Crash this investment showed a $19,000,000 profit. Wall Street heard last week that canny old Leonor Loree took some of his profits before Central slumped from its high of $58.50 a share to last week's price...
...speculators took it easy last week. Brokers cleaned up the litter left by the July Crash (TIME. July 31). Stock and grain prices rebounded, then shuffled off in a secondary reaction as exchange offi cials prepared for resumption of normal trading. The Chicago Board of Trade retained limits on daily fluctuation but removed the minimum prices established when Edward A. ("Doc") Crawford was suspended for insolvency. Banned from the pit forever were all dealings in in demnities (options on grain futures contracts, generally regarded as pure gambling). The New York Stock Exchange voted to lengthen its short sessions into...
...Wall & La Salle Streets were busy -doing their best to raise a New Deal plunger to the stature of Chicago's old-time giants. From the moment that it was whispered that Doc Crawford was the plunger whom Secretary of Agriculture Wallace shamed as largely responsible for the crash in grain prices, the Crawford legend grew like a puffball. Last week auditors were plowing through the books in his tiny office at No. 60 Beaver St., Manhattan, trying to find out just where the secretive little onetime physician stood. Few believed that Doc Crawford was a ruined man. Though...