Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cutting the Cables. For miles around the cape on Friday morning, schoolchildren, housewives, servicemen, office workers poured out into streets, yards, roadsides and public beaches not three miles from the launch pad. The red ball signifying test imminent was hoisted. The crash boats plowed out. The observation planes, two old World War II B-17s and a new Cessna, circled above, gaining altitude. At 10:42 the gantry was rolled away from the rocket; at 11:32 it was moved back again, then finally away; at 11:44 the last "umbilical" cable connecting the rocket to the disconnect pole...
Taking a long look beyond the crash problems and crash solutions of the present, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., gathered in triennial convention in St. Louis last week, talked eloquently of the problems of the long haul...
...viaduct that crosses the main lines on the southeastern edge of London, an electric local was inching forward. At precisely 6:20, in a moment of ghostly horror, the blanket of fog was lit by a blinding blue flash. St. John's grimy brick houses rocked to a crash that sounded, said one resident, "like the explosion of a ton of bombs." Plunging ahead in the fog, the steam train had plowed into the rear of the electric train, whipped around like a swung scythe, snapping a steel support of the viaduct. The 700-ton bridge crashed down...
...consolidated its holdings over the next 17 years, diversified the company, built it into a $300 million corporation. Together with his radical board chairman, Owen D. Young, he was responsible for some of the most far-reaching labor policies in American industry, put into operation (after the 1929 crash) an unemployment insurance plan for 100,000 employees (before the days of social security). In 1931 he presented his famed "Swope Plan" for stabilizing industry, a scheme for a national organization of modified cartels in which competition would be limited, overproduction governed, workers and investors vigorously protected, and responsibility for unemployment...
...Crash-Proof Meter. A parking meter that swivels on a ball-joint base when hit by a car was developed by Marwin Products of Spokane...