Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...records of 9,348 pilots who had had two or more flying accidents, Dr. Horn found that 15% (five times the normal expectancy) had a second accident within 30 days after their first. It seemed to make no difference whether the pilot himself was at fault in his first crash; the experience was so disturbing to his self-confidence that it generally took him months to recover his normal flying skill...
...retired, with my assistants, to a private room in the City Hall. There I was warned that Communist shock troops were on their way over. We waited, and soon heard the rumble of the mob outside. Then, one by one, we heard the doors of the City Hall crash open as fiendish howls of 'Death to Carlini' grew nearer...
...acclaimed hero of the Bermuda Sky Queen crash was Pilot Charles Martin. When his big Boeing flying boat ran low on gas over the stormy North Atlantic last month (TIME, Oct. 27), he had brought her neatly down off the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bibb and saved the lives of 69 passengers and crewmen. But as Civil Aeronautics Board hearings began last week, Pilot Martin (and crew) looked a lot less heroic...
...Black Friday" in October 1929, U.S. Steel Corp. declared a $1 extra dividend. That was Big Steel's last extra dividend until last week-18 years, less a day, from the market crash-U.S. Steel again declared an extra dividend, of 75? a share, out of its fat third-quarter earnings. It could well afford...
Clash of Wills. In Philadelphia, ten members of the police force trying to investigate an auto crash were kept at bay for almost nine hours by a ferocious little...