Word: crashed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Grateful thanks for your article on General LeMay and the B-36s. My brother, T/Sgt. William G. Seymour, was headlined last fall as "the first B-36 casualty," following a crash during a takeoff. It is good to be reassured, as we were by your article, that he was doing some mighty good work...
...Dichter made another notable survey for American Airlines, to explain why many people had never ridden in planes. A main reason, announced Dichter, was fear of "posthumous embarrassment"-i.e., people don't mind being killed in a crash as much as they worry about friends who might say complacently: "Well, I told him never to go up in a plane...
...Wobble. Though the Associated combine was liquidated after the crash, Gossard continued to make money, helped by the economies of Production Man Savard and Paris dressmakers' rediscovery of curves. Gossard also helped develop a lightweight, two-way stretch fabric called powernet (used by all big corset and girdle makers today), and got a long lead by using it first. Says Savard proudly: "The fattest kind of woman doesn't wobble when she wears powernet...
...Warner), based vaguely on the immensely successful 1924 musical No, No, Nanette, sheds a Technicolor tear for the good old days of plus fours, prohibition and the stock-market crash. The story, about a Broadway show, employs nearly every musical-comedy cliche -from romantic misunderstandings between Doris Day and radio's Gordon MacRae to pratfalls by Comic Billy De Wolfe. Every quarter-hour or so there is a big production number...
...time, Wall Street was suffering its worst trading slump in 23 years. Many brokers thought it was caused by too much federal regulation, and felt that a New Dealer like Schram could ease the controls. Schram was convinced that the public, still remembering the '29 crash, had to be sold the idea that Wall Streeters were not a pack of wolves who lived on lambs...