Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took a lease on some property not five miles from home. With beginner's luck, he struck. Since then he has followed the wildcatters from western Pennsylvania to the Gulf Coast of Mexico. He made a fortune, lost most of it in the 1929 crash, returned to the law practice he had never quite abandoned...
...faster than sound in the XS-1 was Air Force Captain Charles Yeager. By now, four others have done it: Major G. E. Lundquist and Captain James P. Fitzgerald of the Air Force, and NACA Test Pilots Herbert Hoover† and Howard Lilly, who was recently killed in a crash. These five had the strange experience of outflying the roar of their own rocket motors...
Orde Wingate never got back. He died in a plane crash on a Burmese mountainside, four weeks before his son was born. But last week Lorna was back. "Israel is at war," she told Jewish friends in Tel Aviv, as she left for a visit to the U.S. "If I had gold and money I would contribute them for the war which my husband foresaw. Not having them, I decided to [bring] you my son ... to be educated in Israel and to be a loyal son of both Israel and Britain...
Only a few days before the crash of the jet-propelled YB-49, the Civil Aeronautics Administration granted an "Approved Type Certificate" to the Allison model 400-C4 jet engine, first jet engine approved for civilian...
Forecasting curves, as far as the Economics Department is concerned, has always been a hazardous, inaccurate business. These prescient folk predicted a cyclical upswing a week before the '29 crash...