Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiralty reported the loss of two more warboats: the submarine Oxley, by "accidental explosion," with 53 dead (out of 54); Northern Rover, a former trawler, "overdue . . . missing . . . lost...
Prohibition, an experiment noble in purpose, was about to begin. Midnight on Jan. 16, 1920, it went into effect. Five months later, guns barked and drilled plump Diamond Jim Colosimo dead as a herring in his own restaurant. The murder was a clue to the sudden bustle in the underworld. Colosimo, owner of brothels, had tried to bite off too much of the new business in illicit booze. That killing set the pattern for many more...
...illegally withheld from the Government a cut of his ill-gotten gains. He was convicted on five of 22 counts of evading the income tax, fined $57,692.29, and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years, an additional year in jail for the charge of contempt. His day was dead. Depression and repeal of the 18th Amendment buried...
...There won't be any adequate shelters provided until there is a change of policy after the first raid. Probably there will be 500 or more dead. That would be nothing in an indiscriminate bombing of 5,000,000 persons...
Whatever the answer, one of a pair of alternatives was inescapable: Either the famed German secret police made a bad slip, or somebody fairly close to Adolf Hitler wants him dead...