Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regain their non-refueling endurance and distance records from the French, who had just wrested them away with a 76-hr, flight. Over the Mediterranean not far from Pisa, the plane's propeller snapped. Flailing blades ripped through the cockpit, slashed the fuselage in two. One man tried to jump as the plane dove. But his parachute was caught in a strut, he went to death with his mates...
...private company could stay long in business if it tried to copy the U. S. Government's methods of financing itself. The Federal Treasury is the country's most prodigal borrower. It operates in the red as a matter of principle. Its preoccupation is keeping one short jump ahead of its creditors. Yet its credit is the highest in the world; financiers vie to lend it money; its profits (surplus) cause the nation to rejoice...
Price War. Gloom stalked through Leipzig as exhibitors at the Fair cut prices (and each others' throats) without stimulating any impressive volume of sales. Canny foreign buyers, interviewed by the Leipzig press, admitted grudgingly, "Prices are a little lower," held back their orders with evident intent to jump in when prices touched bottom...
...Cambridge University track team: its 63rd annual meet with Oxford, 8 first places to 3. Chief star: R. M. N. Tisdall, rangy Irishman, who won the shot put, running broad jump, 20-yard high hurdles, quarter-mile...
...High jump--Won by Healey: second, tie between Phillips (E) and W. H. Hatch '34, Height...