Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon the usually placid sea of public opinion the disaster roused a storm of indignation which the Navy Department had to weather the best it could.
The total number of measures introduced in the House was 8,459. Notable among last week's grist for the bill mill were three proposed Navy inquiries prompted by the S-4 disaster; a new farm-relief bill by Representative Haugen of Iowa; a Mississippi flood-control bill, by...
Investigations loomed. Secretary Wilbur ordered a naval court of inquiry to sit in Boston. In the House of Representatives, three resolutions demanded reports, not only on the specific subjects of the S-4 disaster and safety devices for submarines, but on the efficiency of the Navy in general. Speaker Longworth...
As darkness came over the ocean one night last week, a fleet of fishing smacks, tugs and tenders lingered together around a spot off the Cape Cod coast. Their rocking signal flares betokened rough weather and disaster. In the surf near Provincetown loomed a stranded shape, the U. S. destroyer...
"Government price fixing is known to be unsound and bound to result in disaster," he said. "A Government subsidy would work out in the same way. It cannot be sound for all of the people to hire some of the people to produce a crop which neither the producers nor...