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Word: crashing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metropolitan police got their first news of the crash at about 4:30 yesterday morning when Wilbur Smith, a baking company driver, notified them of the huge gap in the guard rail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Dies in Charles as Auto Plummets off Bridge | 10/29/1948 | See Source »

...Amid the war of elements, the wreck of matter and the crash of worlds" descends from Parnassus (8 Arlington Street, Boston) an editor of an ancient Palladium of liberty and literature, mounts his grey gelding and rides forth to conquest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Anti-Semitic Twist? | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...engine trouble but labor trouble that threatened Pilot Baker with a crash landing. For six months this year most of his regular employees were out on strike. His clerks left when he insisted on his right to subcontract clerical work. Then mechanics refused to cross the clerks' picket lines. His pilots walked out after Baker fired one of them when his plane crashed. Baker hired a new staff and kept his planes flying, but he could no longer make his airline pay, especially as travelers were leary of his new help. Even after the clerks returned to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Forced Landing Ahead? | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Near Turin, Cinemactor Orson Welles was feeling shaky. He and his new friend, Italian Cinemactress Lea Padovani, were crash-landed in a pasture on their way to a benefit. No bones broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Life | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...life-sized, head-shaped shells of brittle plastic and filled them with gelatin. They finally got an artificial human skull that reacted to shock almost exactly like a real one. Then they catapulted the models against solid objects resembling airplane parts that passengers' heads might hit in a crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Watch Your Head! | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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