Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tempered and, though often profane, seldom bitter, Harry Hop kins becomes aroused when WPA is at tacked. One of its loudest critics lately has been Representative Hamilton Fish of New York who last month said of WPA that "the whole rotten mess stinks to high heaven and, like a dead mackerel in the moonlight, it stinks and shines and shines and stinks...
...residential sections, threatened even neighboring Osaka. Kobe's Broadway, the Motomachi, was flooded with ten feet of water. In Kobe's main railway station water was five feet deep. The city's prison walls crumbled and 900 prisoners had to be moved. Toll: 311 dead. 400 missing, 60,000 homes flooded, $30,000,000 damage...
...through a copper cylinder (left centre) and emerges below, much weaker and making a broader line. Its energy is now only 210,000 volts and so its path is more sharply bent by the magnetic field. After traveling about an inch more (to the right) it comes to a dead stop...
...Eastbound from Missoula, a huge Northern Pacific freight locomotive, with 75 cars behind and a hundred hoboes riding, blew up in Hell Gate Canyon with the mightiest roar Montana has heard since Paul Bunyan passed by. Dead when help came were the engineer, the fireman, the brakeman, two hoboes. So shattered was the engine that railway officials despaired of determining just what had happened. But in the Northern Pacific offices at Philadelphia, 2,000 miles away, there had lain for weeks a document containing a fantastically possible answer: two typewritten pages reporting a conversation overheard on the Camden-Philadelphia ferry...
Gales, a businesslike American in the middle of a Central American jungle looking for alligators, came upon a little Indian village by the side of a river. People said that he had once been interrupted when he was just on the point of raising an Indian from the dead, which gave him a useful reputation. He got to know the Indians in the village: the master of a pump station which pumped water through the jungle to a railroad depot; the pump master's wife, an aristocrat because she owned pots and pans; a young, handsome Indian named Perez...