Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organism subject to violent cyclical swings from boom to bust, each is out to get more than just a fair share. Both sides, labor and management want that "extra" which may mean the difference between life and death in the depression. The result is the upward spiral, and the crash...
...Sunday it was obvious that the story on Georgia's gubernatorial confusion, which kept expanding, would need plenty of space for the telling. So several other stories were edited down to make room for it, and others re-written in shorter form. The crash of a Navy plane in California fitted into the story on air safety, and was placed there...
Died. Prince Gustaf Adolf, 40, eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince; in the airplane crash that killed Grace Moore; in Copenhagen (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Died. Grace Moore, 45, bubbling, blonde hillbilly girl (selfstyled) who became one of the Metropolitan Opera's first-string divas (Mimi, Tosca), took Hollywood in stride (One Night of Love), toured operatic and concert stages the world over; in a plane crash; in Copenhagen (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...long the upper stratum of Palm Beach and Newport society was chilly toward the Youngs. In 1936, they gave their only child, Eleanor, one of the most spectacularly lavish coming-out parties in Newport's history. But since 1941, when Eleanor was killed in an airplane crash, the Youngs have become much less active -and entirely acceptable. If nothing else, their closeness to the Windsors would generally insure them top seeding in social tournaments...