Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Naval Court of Inquiry, headed by Admiral Robert E. Coontz, reported the results of its investigation into the causes of the recent explosions in the Naval ammunition depot at Lake Denmark, N. J. (TIME, July...
Christian X (Denmark...
...Nineteen nations have returned simple "acknowledgments" without comment. (France, Bolivia, China, Colombia, Denmark, Haiti, Latvia, Lithuania, Panama, Paraguay, Persia, Poland, the Dominican Republic, Portugal, Salvador, Siam, Switzerland, Uruguay, Venezuela...
...have been minimized? Can they discount the contention of Professor Pupin of Columbia University, as given by Hearst-Editor Brisbane, that sheet copper roofings connected by huge copper bands directly with wet earth would have frustrated even this "act of God?" The system of lightning rod protectors at Lake Denmark is obviously inefficient. The Government controls immense voltages of electricity at Niagara Falls; why have not engineers sought a method to control electrical attacks on the concentrated sudden death at Dover? Were the officials negligent in permitting habitation near the arsenal? Will new storage plants be situated at Dover? Will...
Lightning had hit the U. S. Arsenal at Lake Denmark, Government officials believe. The number of casualties was miraculously small, according to army officers. Most of the men injured were knocked down by the concussion of the explosions as the fragments of the fusillade hurtled over their heads...