Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barclay Acheson, director of the Reader's Digest's International Editions, started for Stockholm to set up a Swedish-language edition. En route, his flying boat crashed on the take-off from Botwood, Newfoundland, and broke in half. The front half sank immediately. Acheson was saved only because he had stepped to the rear of the plane for a smoke just before the crash. This half stayed afloat long enough for him to be rescued. He took up his interrupted trip a week or so later...
...light, convertible coupe, was travelling at what police described as considerable speed in a westerly direction along Massachusetts Avenue when the crash occured. Chapman, sitting in the right front seat was thrown through the windshield by the impact...
...prospects for avoiding continued and increasing inflation and an eventual crash are not good. The present Congress has exhibited a shocking lack of knowledge of the basic needs of our own economy. Its actions in removing almost all economic controls, its drive to waken the trade unions, its failure to use the report of the President's Economic Advisory Council as a basis for constructive action are evidence of a philosophy that should have disappeared from Washington when Hoover left the White House in 1933. But that philosophy has returned, and so has Hoover...
Next day the market was thrown out of gear with a resounding crash. A flood of selling started when the market opened. By the close, corn and soy beans were down 8?, their daily legal limit; wheat fell 6 to 8¾?. Even wholesale meat prices slipped, along with livestock prices. One thing that had finally frightened the speculator into panicky selling was a decision by the Federal Government to cut purchases of grains for November export by some 50 million bu., 42% below the July-October level. And traders who had expected frost to nip the short corn crop...
...head-on crash, No. 4's steel held, but the special's wooden cars burst into a knot of wreckage. Shattered gas lights and exploding gas tanks beneath the ancient coaches spread fire the train's length, set two nearby grain elevators ablaze, leaped to an Imperial Oil Co. storage depot where 80 drums of oil took fire. Rescuers saved as many passengers as they could before the flames drove them away...