Word: crashing
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Died. Earl Snell, 52, governor of Oregon; in a hunting-trip plane crash; on a plateau in southern Oregon. Killed in the same crash: State Senate President Marshall Cornett, 49, next in line of succession for the governorship; Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell Jr., 41, who had thought of running for governor in 1951, after the expiration of Snell's term...
...major depression, even the endowment income will be reduced. In 1929, such a reduction led the University to solicit a tremendous amount of "gifts for immediate use." These gifts which hopped from about one million dollars in 1926 to seven million in 1929, tugged Harvard safely through the crash. They were not, however, sufficient to block an average twenty-five percent tuition rise throughout the University...
...first crash of a DC-6, luxurious, pressurized, 300-mile-an-hour craft which went into commercial service last spring. The toll was U.S. aviation's second highest (the highest: 53, killed last May in a DC-4 crash near Port Deposit, Md.). What caused the baggage fire was a question which might never be answered. All the baggage of Flight 608 was loaded into belly cargo pits through which passed no gasoline lines or electric wires. The pits carried automatic smoke indicators and extinguishing apparatus. It seemed unlikely that matches, cigarette lighters or other ordinary objects...
Died. Gerard Barnes Lambert Jr., 35, only son of Yachtsman Gerard B. Lambert, former president of the Lambert (Listerine) Co. and onetime executive chairman of the Gillette Safety Razor Co.; in an air crash; near Bryce Canyon, Utah (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Gerard Jr. was the fourth of his clan to be killed in an airplane crash (1927: cousin James T. Walker Jr.; 1929: cousin George Lea Lambert; 1939: cousin Samuel B. Lambert...
...middle west, the novel throws all the enchantment, the crookedness and the bitter struggle of early circus business against a background a hysterical free enterprise. As the circus grows, its art is replaced by the character and evils of a big corporation. When the companies begin to crash the circus tumbles after them...