Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1934 the $15,000,000,000 U. S. public utility industry, rightly or wrongly convinced that the present U. S. Government is bent on sending it to the death house, has been fighting a rear-guard legal action with about as little success as Convict Tom Mooney. It has lost two major appeals in the Supreme Court. Last fortnight utility lawyers concluded a last-ditch attempt to get the currently New Dealish Supreme Court to reverse the "brutal doctrine of Chattanooga"-the opinion of a three-judge Federal Court this year that since TVA power sales are legal, utilities...
Billionaire Rockefeller retained at his death only $26,410,837, almost entirely in easily convertible corporate and Government securities, including only one sentimental share of Standard Oil Company of California and just about enough U. S. Treasury notes to pay his last taxes: $4,385,000 to New York State, $12,245,000 to the U. S. Treasury. Principal individual beneficiary under his will was Mrs. Margaret Strong de Cuevas, daughter of his eldest daughter Bessie, who died before Rockefeller divided his wealth among his children. Heroically singleminded, he showed no attachment to the things money can buy. He sold...
...arms torn from their bodies by the onrush of debris. A corps of carpenters constructing wooden coffins saw a mass of mud moving down a valley, were themselves buried alive. Mothers tried to herd their young to safety as the slithering ground under their feet swept whole families to death. One seven-acre area was covered by a 20-ft. layer of clay...
...death and destruction moved with terrifying suddenness over the lovely island, temporary roadside morgues were set up. Many of St. Lucia's 67,000 inhabitants wailed throughout the night as they waited in long lines to identify members of their families. Others insisted upon going into the deep slime, hoping to rescue imbedded relatives. With hundreds of acres of land destroyed, thousands made homeless, St. Lucia next day counted its casualties: at least 250 dead, many more missing. The British Windward Islands administration, with headquarters at St. George's Grenada, faced its greatest relief problem...
...doctrine of the self-sufficiency of man. "As for the humanism to which it invites us, the way in which revolutionary materialistic dialectic has lived for twenty years in the country it conquered, has devoured its leaders, reduced their morality to the end justifies the means, put to death or persecuted thousands of respected men--this is sufficient to edify us on that subject...