Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shot at the Senator? Kaiser fancied that he had three very good reasons: 1) he had been fired from his policeman's job in April and a Bricker appointee had taken his place; 2) when he had been wiped out in the crash of an Ohio building & loan firm 15 years ago, the name of Ohio's then Attorney General, John Bricker, had appeared on all the papers that spelled his financial ruin; 3) Bricker had done nothing to help him get his job or his money back...
George H. Earle, who used to be Governor of Pennsylvania and a U.S. diplomat in the Balkans, survived what he said was his 15th plane crash. When the wheels of an amphibian wouldn't let down, the ship made a dry-land landing on pontoons at 70 m.p.h. Earle's injury: a scratch on the wrist...
...textile manufacturers Shapiro said: "If you'll help me sell my 15? patterns they'll help you sell goods." So textile salesmen plugged Simplicity patterns. Sales were moderately brisk when the 1929 crash came. To Simplicity, that was a stroke of luck. Women who had never made a dress in their lives were forced to learn-and Simplicity's cheap, easy-to-make patterns were soon outselling all other brands...
...staggered dazedly away. Rain began streaming down as the flames soared up in 50-ft. tongues. Baldwin started back-there were 47 people inside-and was held back by the gathering crowd. Firemen drove a fire engine through a wooden fence, attacked the fire. Then the hero of the crash-a 38-year-old New Yorker named Edward McGrath-arrived. He grabbed an ax, waded into the furnace heat, chopped a hole in the broken plane's duraluminum skin. He squeezed in & out seven times and hauled out seven people before he collapsed. Then firemen rescued three more...
...instant. Bill Holland, who had taken the lead (earning $100 in prize money for each lap he led) rolled in to the pit for his first stop. It took 14 seconds to change a weakening tire; nitrogen bottles blew fuel from drums into the tank; Holland patted his crash helmet, pulled down his goggles and sped off. The merry-go-round went on. With only 100 miles to go, Lou Moore's two drivers were running...