Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From this house will each day issue the myriad copies of Hearst's New York Journal (evening) and American (morning). It is alive with rollers, chutes, conveyors to carry copy, proof, type to contact points in the process of rushing news to newsboy. In the "fudge" room stand three...
The Editors of the Register had expected to announce its appearance within a day or two but because of this disaster, they will be forced to postpone the date of publication if the forms and sheets suffered only slight injury and will abandon it altogether if they find that they...
As in a street accident the curious, excited crowd impedes the recovery of the injured, so in the sinking of the S-1 there was much shouting and treading on toes that made painful a tragic circumstance, and that brings, now that panic struck hope has turned to quiet sorrow...
Devices. Inventors and ingenues, marine experts and housewives, Navy men and newsboys suggested schemes and devices by which the disaster might have been averted.
Other Devices ? electro-magnetic lifts, detachable chambers and keels, divers' suits for escape through torpedo tubes or conning tower?were all said by the Navy Department to have been studied, tested and found impracticable. The Navy Department's memorandum of last week on safety devices was prepared last year...