Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italian sales), Mattei opened the biggest, neatest stations that Britain had yet seen. He intended to add a refinery, but his deal to build one fell through. AGIP ran into increasing competition, began to lose money. ENI Boss Eugenio Cefis, who took over after Mattei died in an airplane crash three years ago, decided to "redimension" the over-extended oil empire...
Last week, after years of fruitless efforts to have the Warsaw Convention rewritten, the U.S. announced that it will unilaterally denounce the treaty next May unless changes are made. This would leave the heirs of crash victims free to sue in U.S. courts any airline that services the U.S., provided the courts were willing to accept the jurisdiction. Since U.S. withdrawal would both seriously disrupt treaty proceedings and put foreign lines in for a lot of potential trouble, the airlines are anxious to make some adjustment to placate...
...calmness and dispassion not often matched in easily aroused Northern newspapers. "We've been leaning over backwards to be fair to the people we disagree with," says Lottman. The Courier even had some kind words about Ku Klux Klan Lawyer Matt Murphy, killed last August in an automobile crash. Murphy, the paper noted, had often defended Negro clients and had helped a Negro lawyer to gain admittance to the Alabama...
...Crash of Symbols...
...busiest stock-exchange trading since the 1962 crash, bulls and bears tugged furiously at each other last week but did little more than leave millions of shareholders confused and wondering what would happen next...