Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...killed eight, injured 40 (TIME, Sept. 4 ). Both wrecks were due to sudden storms, could be set down as acts of God. But last week's Erie smash-up was the kind that all railroad men most deplore-the reckless failure of man power. After dusk the Atlantic Express (No. 8) pulled out of the Binghamton station on its way from Chicago to Jersey City. All of its eight cars were of heavy steel except the third from the rear, an oldfashioned wooden coach full of Binghamton commuters and Erie workers going home to Susquehanna, Pa. Near the Binghamton...
...secretary: "Mr. Rockefeller is deeply appreciative of your kind thought . . . also of your beautiful letter. "Mr. Rockefeller and his friends think it would be an improvement if the necktie could be brought to a different shade of blue, and we are taking the liberty of sending you the portrait, express prepaid, and one of Mr. Rockefeller's ties which represents the shade of blue which he has been in the "habit of wearing, and if it is your pleasure to add this improvement to your already generous contribution if you will then return the portrait, express collect, we will...
...painting the Roper lily (Letters, Aug. 28) as scarcely TiME-worthy. In no wise existing on "public money on which the taxpayer gets no tangible returns," the postal service renders as tangible and indispensable a service as that given by the telephone, telegraph, railway and express companies. And ''public money" is public money whether paid indirectly through the Postoffice Department or directly to a utility...
...Immediately the herd stampeded and milled around in every direction, as they didn't seem to know where the danger was. But within two or three seconds a big bull picked us out and came for us like an express train...
...Captain Albert Berry when he made the first test parachute jump from an airplane in 1912. Since 1919 552 flyers have bailed out with parachutes, left their ships to rocket wildly to earth. A notable fall in this rain came in 1919 when the airship Wing foot Express burst into flames while flying over Chicago's business district. The two pilots parachuted away. The Wingfoot Express crashed through the skylight of Illinois Trust & Savings Bank, killing 13 bank employes. Much more frequent are accidents in which the pilot of a plane disabled over the city has crashed with...