Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Came rumors of an impending crash; then it hit. Undergraduates began to wonder what all this finance business was, anyhow, and the rush to economics began. Last year, with nations preparing to jump at each other's throats, Government passed Ec to take the lead...
...most successful Government supervisory agencies airmen had ever seen. By executive order he made the independent Civil Aeronautics Authority an appendage of the Department of Commerce, abolished the equally independent Air Safety Board. Airline men had found that the supervision of CAA and the 'crash board' was hard-boiled but good; the lines had set an unprecedented record of 15 months' operation without an accident. Since the change there have been four fatal airline accidents, a fifth in which an airliner was destroyed...
...Reader Taylor's letter was written a few days before the sixth crash befell an Eastern Airliner carrying the line's own President Eddie Rickenbacker (TIME, March...
...known last week that Dr. Banting was not immediately killed in the crash, but was able to bandage the injuries of Captain Joseph Mackey, the only survivor. When he had done that, he lay down on a bed of broken branches, covered himself with his overcoat, and stopped being stubborn...
...Paul Talbot Babson, who now owns practically all the stock. The reorganization failed to create any important profits; early this year the company announced it would be unable to pay on its notes. Standard Statistics Co., biggest of them all, began an expansion at the time of the 1929 crash, by 1931 had 1,300 employes, a lease on six floors (plus an option on two more) of a brand-new building and its own printing plant. When public interest in the market sank to apathy, Standard could not retrench fast enough. Salaries were cut, the staff was trimmed, executives...