Word: crashed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...ground. The pilots seemed unable to wait long enough to finish one strafing run before wheeling their blue-black craft around in the skies for another; they jerked their planes sharply out of bombing dives, made turns so tight that we were sure some of them would crash...
Voice of Hollywood. In Lima in 1941, the late Grace Moore heard her, promised to launch her on a career in the U.S. But shortly after Yma got to Manhattan in 1947, the famed soprano was killed in a plane crash. With husband Moises Vivanco playing the guitar and cousin Cholita Rivero dancing ("The Inca Taky Trio"), Yma sang at a Pan American Union concert in Washington in 1948. Demanded the Times-Herald critic, after praising her to the skies: "What's the matter with...
...control, would probably soon tear themselves from the wings. And he was fighting the drag of a landing gear that wouldn't retract. He banked the B-29 in a steep semicircle, skimmed close to the lights of Fairfield-Suisun's sprawling trailer camp, and crash-landed-left wing first-into an open field, a mile short of the runway...
...using Alpinists' gear-hook, rope and nylon sling-they reached the top safely, but cracked off a piece of the spire on the way down. The crash brought a policeman. Oxford's long-suffering town fathers found the two guilty of "public mischief," but postponed sentence, "to see what [the students] will do in the way of compensation...
...company's big crisis came after the crash of '29, when insurance companies were hit along with everyone else. Smith, who had moved up from a vice-presidency into the presidency just after the crash, kept paying full dividends for three years. By thus building up good will, and by relentless plugging of the firm's soundness with an ad he thought up during a Sunday church service ("Seven major depressions have failed to shake the stability of this company"), Smith in 21 years had quadrupled New England Mutual's assets (to $1.1 billion) and increased...