Word: crashed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...year ago last week, 13 U.S. newsmen (including TIME'S Jack Werkley), coming home from an assignment in Indonesia, died in the crash of a Dutch plane near Bombay, India (TIME, July 25, 1949). Last week, in their memory, The Netherlands government established the William the Silent Award. The prize, for the best annual article on The Netherlands by a U.S. writer in a U.S. newspaper or magazine: a gold medal and $2,500. Announcing the award, Editor Albert Balink of The Netherlands-U.S. magazine, Knickerbocker, explained: "William the Silent was the kind of personality any [newsman] would...
...while she is unconscious he kicks and reviles her. A chair is overturned and a faucet has been left running. She does not "remember" these things because she is unconscious, but according to dianetics her reactive mind records them all in an engram. Later, the crash of an overturned chair and the sound of running water might make the engram "key-in" to her analytical mind, vaguely bring back the pain of the kicks or actually make...
There were 15 in all, four officers and eleven enlisted men, on the first casualty list issued by the Army. The men were lost in the crash of a transport en route to Korea...
...trading totaled 3,910,000 shares, the heaviest since May 21, 1940, when Hitler's Panzer divisions were sweeping through northern France. The selling sent the Dow-Jones industrial average tumbling 10.41 points, the biggest single day's break since the September crash...
Within hours of the first crash, a French government commission was on the way to Bahrein to investigate. It was headed by Maurice Bellonte, of the famed Coste-Bellonte team which flew nonstop from Paris to New York in 1930. There were rumors that in each crash the altimeter was faulty, but an early report from Airman Bellonte said that in the second plane at least, the instruments were "in good working order...