Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When mild little Carlos Garcia took over as President of the Philippines after the plane-crash death of the nation's beloved Ramon Magsaysay last March, Garcia announced, in a paraphrase of Harry Truman, that he felt as if he had been hit by a ton of bricks.* Like Truman, he was a faithful member of an old political machine, was picked as Vice President on straight party considerations, and seemed no man to fill his predecessor's larger shoes. Charley Garcia, 60, was expected to serve out the remaining nine months of Ramon Magsaysay's term...
...vaccine as fast as possible, and in response they are putting their virus laboratories on two or three shifts, seven days a week. But there is only so much vaccine available for seeding; it will grow only at its naturally appointed speed (in fertilized eggs). So, even with their crash program, the manufacturers can promise only 8,000,000 shots of vaccine by mid-September. After that, cooler weather is expected to send the flu rate soaring...
...were operating in the red, and airline shares have lost 30% to 40% of their market value since 1955. This week, after a long, bitter campaign, the airmen will present their final arguments to the Civil Aeronautics Board for the one thing they claim will head off a serious crash: a 6% fare increase on all domestic routes, their first big raise in nine years...
...manager of all the company's mills in Czarist Russia, later as boss of his own worldwide trade corporation. In 1929 Marinotti got a distress call from Societá Nazionale Industria Applicazione Viscosa, onetime shipping company turned textile manufacturer. Snia Viscosa, overcapitalized and overinflated at the 1929 crash, had all but collapsed...
...create the wall space needed to hang some heirloom tapestries "with a lot of people in codpieces out looking for something." Tanner's spiritual home (his father was formerly a broker on the Chicago Board of Trade) is really another decade. "I'm a pre-crash item. You know, those vulgar colored cars, baroque faucets and so on. And you should see my Charleston...