Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hysterical day last week the municipality of Asbury Park, N. J. laid plans to acquire the beached and blackened hulk of T. E. L. Morro Castle for a side show. Editors boomed out their alarm over the failure of men and machinery in a marine disaster that had taken 127 lives. President Roosevelt at Hyde Park talked hopefully of new fireproof construction laws at the next Congress which would prevent a repetition of such a holocaust. And in Manhattan the Department of Commerce's Steamboat Inspection service tried to get at the cause and circumstances of the wreck...
When was the alarm given...
...fire she was protected by one of the most elaborate systems ever installed afloat. In a special fire-control room was a switchboard, supposed to be manned day & night, with tubes which permitted the operator to pipe fire-extinguishing gas to any threatened part of the ship. An automatic alarm system was designed to indicate instantly the position of fire in any part of the vessel...
Soon after the fire alarm had sounded. the port side of the ship was like the inside of a Bessemer converter. Astern, cut off from ship's officers by the fire, frightened passengers in night clothes prayed, shrieked, sang "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here." A young Catholic priest walked calmly around giving all comers final absolution. Eight of the ship's twelve boats were lowered. There was fighting to get into these. "Everybody was pushing and screaming topside." said Seaman Carl Jackson. "The passengers were fighting to get to the lifeboats, but it was no good. They were...
Last week the chief of the New Deal found a new job for Ernest Gruening, managing what U. S. imperialists like to think of as U. S. colonies.* His appointment as "Minister of Colonies" promptly threw Hawaii, relatively comfortable and prosperous, into a state of alarm. Not happy over its treatment by Dr. Tugwell, an editor of The New Republic (Island sugar planters last week filed suit against the sugar quota he had set for them), Hawaii feared what might befall it at the hands of Dr. Gruening, an ex-editor of The Nation. For nothing does Hawaii dread more...