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...executive of both Northwest Airways and Stout Air Services, remarked at Lehigh University last week that two out of five air passengers sleep enroute. In Germany last week one George Hermann slept so soundly while the Junkers plane on which he was a passenger bucked and twisted to a crash, that he knew nothing of the trouble until the smash-up made him bite off his tongue...
...consequence in France. During the past year fictional corporations with such vague names as L'Union Française d'Emission and La Société Syndicate Fonciére were organized and floated at the rate of slightly less than one a day. When the crash came some 400 employes of Swindleress Hanau organized themselves into the "Society for the Defense of Honor," protesting that they had believed themselves to be engaged in selling absolutely legitimate securities to friends, neighbors, relatives, priests...
...Market opens the week wavering, progresses into a slump, ends with a crash. At the end of the week Speculator Smith's investments have shown the following results...
...crack passenger train between New Orleans and Chicago. On the midnight run of March 18, 1900, with Mardi Gras guests abroad. Casey Jones saw a crash coming with the rear-end of a freight train near Vaughns, Mississippi. He did all he could to prevent it, pulled on the air-brakes, threw his engine into reverse. Then he yelled to the fireman: "jump if you want to save your neck." But Casey Jones, no jumper, stayed with his locomotive and died instantly in the crash...
...Ward, Sears Roebuck, Wright Aero, Victor Talking Machine, Packard Motor and many another stock declined from 5 to 15 points. Other slumping stocks also began to climb back, the market finally re-asserting its prevailing bullish trend. Observers pointed out that there was no real relation between the Marconi crash and the weakening of the entire Exchange board, attributed the decline to "market nervousness...