Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Benjamin Baker, 61, oldtime newshawk, economist, editor of The Annalist (financial weekly) since 1925; of a heart attack; in Hartsdale. N. Y. His predictions of the 1929 crash fell on deaf ears...
...Marion Moultrie uprose to begin the service by which he would be ordained a minister. Beside the altar flickering oil lamps lighted the church's storm-cast gloom. Standing below the pulpit, prayer book in hand. Marion Moultrie began solemnly to intone: "We are gathered here this afternoon . . ." Crash! The church was glutted with sound and light. Marion Moultrie swayed, fell dead in the arms of a deacon. . . The blackamoors screamed, then set up such a wailing as they had never before achieved. Police came, took away the body with its lightning-ripped collar and shoes. The storm abated...
...stand Mr. Mitchell stoutly maintained that this was equitable, since he had sunk his entire fortune in bolstering up the bank during the crash, therefore had a moral if not a legal claim on the bank's generosity...
...Weather Bureau should issue daily four general weather maps instead of two. (The Committee blamed the Akron crash on "navigation of the ship into storm conditions." Commander Rosendahl had testified that he was sure Captain McCord could not have had full weather data, otherwise what he did would indicate, unthinkably, ''wholesale disregard of information...
...ride in the forward cockpit of a two-seater Curtiss-Wright Junior one day last week over Hartford, Conn. when suddenly the motor quit, the plane's nose pulled up steeply. Sam Levin had enough experience in gliders to know that a stall, a spin, probably a crash were imminent. He glanced hastily backward at Pilot Frederick T. Hawes seated in the rear cockpit just forward of the pusher-type motor. Pilot Hawes's eyes were half closed, his tongue protruded. He was being strangled by his scarf which was being wound around the hub of the propeller...