Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News wires soon burned with the flash that a giant rockfall had plunged from the brink of the American Falls. Buffalo hastily reported that the shock had registered on the seismograph of Canisius College. An engineer of the Niagara park commission estimated the break to be 125 feet across and 30 feet deep, added that his view had been partly obscured by the mists. The reliable Associated Press released an aerial photo carefully marking the "Break of September 20, 1946." Said a Page One headline in the sober New York Times: AMERICAN FALLS NOW A HORSESHOE...
...Last May's stock prices were based on rosy hopes for big 1946 profits; last week's stock prices were based on the realization that many 1946 profits would be quite modest. The market drop was far sharper than after World War I (see chart] because the shock of disillusionment in the "postwar boom" was greater. Biggest shocker: the Pennsylvania Railroad would lose money this year for the first time in its loo-year history, unless it got a 25% freight increase (estimated loss: $14,616,000 after carryback tax credit...
Another in the series of Caribbean earthquakes was reported yesterday at 10 minutes, 43.5 seconds after 6 o'clock this morning, by the University seismograph station, at Harvard, Massachusetts. The center of the shock was reported to be 1,500 miles south of the station...
...stylists got some publicity they had not counted on. As Hollywood's pretty designer Dede Johnson paraded her new styles on the rim of the Canyon, she fell over the edge, landed on a ledge 50 feet down. Luckily, she was unhurt, except for bruises and shock; luckily there were news stories. (Eastern stylists cattishly murmured that this was going too far, even for California...
...normal jet cruising speed, which is well above 300 m.p.h., every air effect is sharply exaggerated. "A patch of rough air," said an Army pilot, "which would be slightly jostling to another plane, suddenly slams you against your belts. You thank your crash helmet for absorbing the shock when the canopy smacks downward...