Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Your article "Worst Man" concerning "Killer" Burke (TIME, April 6) differs much from the facts as they have been made known to the people of this community by local editors and told by the men who took part in the capture...
...Sunday just two years ago a trimotored Ford of Colonial Western Airways, Inc. faltered over Newark Airport, glided smack into a railroad car loaded with sand. All 14 passengers were killed. Pilot Lou Foote alone surviving what was then U. S. aviation's worst accident. Last week ended the joint trial of six $100.000 damage suits-largest aviation damage trial in the U. S. Verdict: awards of $89.000, varying from...
...held in almost all the new boomtowns. Nervous, crippled, Editor Estes is 33, has been in the newspaper business 17 years. A leader in the affairs of Tyler, he was dismayed when Capt. J. F. Lucey, U. S. Government investigator, said that during 1930 that town suffered the worst depression in the U. S. for a community of its size. In the boom he sees new prosperity for Tyler, hence his bitterness in flaying those who would halt the gushers' heavy flow...
...storm broke suddenly last week. It was the worst in the history of the industry. A flurry of price-cutting suddenly changed to an open burst of cutthroat competition. Prices were slashed from 35? to 24? in the first mighty blast. The second gust toppled them to 19?. Then there followed tales of hurried secret conferences among alcohol men, of a truce. Prices became firmer, but the storm had done its damage. Alcohol men conceded that it will be a long time before business is done at 35?, or the now-to-be-marveled-at 1929 high...
...loosen the ice as quickly as it could form. The ice would be blown away. Last week at Akron, the Goodrich company announced that a Lockheed Vega and a Douglas mail plane equipped with Dr. Geer's overshoes had been flown for the past four months under worst conditions (just below 32% in moist atmosphere). The planes' flying performance was unaffected. Geer overshoes are to be shown the public for the first time at the National Aircraft Show in Detroit, April...