Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aroused by the loss of the PN9 No. 1 plane flying to Hawaii and the wreck of the Shenandoah, following in short order one on the other, he issued a lengthy statement saying: "I hope that every American will hear it." The War Department certainly did. Exerpts...
...Limited Mail. In the old days about all you had to do was wreck a train and they called it a successful movie. About all they do in The Limited Mail is wreck a train, and one would scarcely call it a success. It is about a tramp who caught hold of life in large chunks and made a man of himself and became the engineer of The Limited Mail. The Mail Clerk and he were both in love with the same girl. Accordingly it was fitting that the clerk be killed and the engineer saved from the wreck...
...stormy morning the Shenandoah cruising across southern Ohio was suddenly seized by contending winds, and snapped in two like a straw between their fingers. By noon of that day airplanes carrying reporters and cameramen were speeding towards the scene of the wreck from points hundreds of miles away. There are no records of fatalities in those flights for news, but the hardships and difficulties to be overcome were great. The storm had not completely abated and the planes coming from the East had to cross the Alleghanies against the storm...
...case of the dance, the two bodies are in closer proximity! They are in rhythmical motion, one against the other, and the stimulus of music, as well as bodily contact, is there to heighten the danger of wreck or ruin...
...then, Mr. Ford is not subject to any rule. He is, judged by results, the greatest business executive in the world; but if any one else attempted to run a business as Mr. Ford does, he would probably wreck it in a month...