Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student days at Virginia were interrupted by World War I. In 1916-17 he was an ambulance driver with the French Army at Verdun and the Argonne. When the U.S. entered the war, Darden switched to the Navy and then the Marines, injured his back in a plane crash. He returned to Charlottesville to finish up, took a law degree at Columbia, went on to Oxford. Now 50, for 22 years he was a faithful member of the Byrd political machine, was elected four times to Congress, once to the governorship. Although Darden doesn't need the money...
...Durant spent an estimated $90,000,000 trying to bolster it before he finally lost control of G.M. for good. He founded Durant Motors, aiming to start a new G.M. But this time it was no go. He piled up another fortune by playing the stockmarket, but the 1929 crash virtually wiped him out. Later, he went into bankruptcy, listing $250 (the clothes on his back) as his only assets...
...grain markets hell-bent for calamity? Last week it looked as if they were performing the same speculative shenanigans that preceded cotton's October crash (TIME...
Contesting these arguments, the speakers for the negative, stating that the crash in 1929 came at a period of peak employment, claimed that a guaranteed annual wage would not assure sufficient consumer purchasing power to guarantee a market for the products of industry...
Next day tempers flared again. Winston Churchill took a lacing when he interrupted a backbencher. Said the Speaker: "You cannot gate-crash." Churchill, white with anger, protested that gate-crashing was a nasty word and its application to him was "wholly unwarranted." The Speaker said he was "very sorry...