Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After having played havoc with the best seller lists when he wrote "Inside Europe" and "Inside Asia," John Gunther might well be expected to crash through with another attempt to get "inside" some place or other. And that is exactly what he's done in "Inside Latin America," a racy and thoroughly informative sketch of Latin America, plays Puerto Rico and Trinidad...
Back in the U.S. during the easy '20s, Cohen became a credit man, then developed a new angle of his own. He bought into small insurance companies, pyramided their stocks on the rising market. After the crash he bought more, paying the book value of their shares (higher than the market) on condition he be lent the money to buy out the other stockholders. By 1932 he controlled companies with assets...
...atmospheric affair. Chafing against a hard edge of reluctance she felt in Stahr, the girl married another man. Stahr, no drinker, got dismally drunk. Fitzgerald's manuscript stops at that point. The synopsis, and notes carry the tale down to Stahr's death in an airplane crash, and its curious aftermath...
Vance Breese, famed, ruddy test pilot, took it for its first ride. Off the ground he held the ship down, stuck close to earth to make the crash easy on himself if it came. It didn't. Grinned Jack Northrop, after he had landed: "It looks like we have a plane with a 20-foot ceiling...
When John Calhoun became Secretary of War, Shreve got his chance. While jeering onlookers hooted, the snag boat "drove head on at a massive 'planter' (half submerged tree). There was a booming impact and crash. It seemed to the onlookers that the boat must be shattered to pieces. But there it was, still intact, and the huge tree toppling into the water. A spontaneous cheer went up. . . ." "By the end of 1830, the age-old drowned forests had vanished from the Mississippi...