Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herald Tribune?a paper on which he once worked as a reporter?Mr. Lamont said that, although "The City" (financial London) at first strongly backed Chancellor Snowden's demand for £2,000,000 per annum more sponge cake, there was now lively apprehension lest that same demand should wreck the Conference and prevent adoption of the Young Plan. "They feel," said Mr. Lamont, allowing himself to be directly quoted, "that failure to reach some agreement would mean international derangement. They feel it would endanger the gold standard [of Sterling] and would threaten British financial losses far greater than...
Maximilian Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, his license to fight where fighting is most lucrative still withheld by the New York State Boxing Commission was "practically a nervous wreck" as he stepped aboard the Hamburg-American liner Albert Ballin, bound for Berlin, his mother and a rest. Warned that unless he soon returned Argentine's Victorio Maria Campolo would replace him as world's champion heavyweight contender, Herr Schmeling scoffed: "Campolo is a one-day fly ... here today and gone tomorrow...
Henry Ford, sitting in his shirtsleeves on the porch of his Wayside Inn at Sudbury, Mass., heard a crash as three automobiles and a bus collided, burst into flames. He ran to the wreck, helped extract two men, a boy and three other persons badly burned...
...Last year Showman Gest, stick in hand, clambered out of a window from the wreck of a Rome-Paris express in which 15 persons died...
...establishing the Wabash as a potent independent. The Western Maryland was also included in the B. & O. scheme and is at present under B. & O. control. Inclusion of the Wheeling & Lake Erie was a thrust against the Van Sweringens. Inclusion of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia would wreck trunk-line plans of the Taplins. A good example of the confusion attendant upon Wabash plan is the fact that the Van Sweringens and the Taplins, long feudists, were united in protest against...