Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It was all in vain. The H-47 lay in 324 feet of water. A gale was rising. In the House of Commons Britain's new First Sea Lord, Albert Victor Alexander, onetime railway yardworker, had his first important task in breaking the news of the disaster. He was obliged...
He was wireless operator at John Wanamaker's in 1912. When the Titanic sank, he stayed on the job for 72 hours getting the record of the disaster, the list of survivors. When Radio Corp. absorbed American Marconi, Mr. Sarnoff, the Commercial Manager, retained his position. He became General...
And yet one boy, who contributed nothing to the success of the trip and almost turned it to disaster, writes his own account of the flight and the American people read it avidly, admire his nerve, and save up confetti for his reception when he returns to New York. The...
Last week Chicago officials admitted that the city faced bankruptcy, that it had borrowed up to the legal limit on anticipated revenue, that only a Businessman's Commission could prevent financial disaster. Taxes were far behind because of assessments rank with favoritism. Fifty thousand city employes, chiefly firemen and...
Biggest news of the week to Rio de Janeiro editors was neither politics, crime nor disaster, but the arrival in the U. S. of Miss Olga Bergamini De Sa, "Miss Brazil," for an international beauty contest to be held June 8-12 in Galveston, Tex. Shouldering other matter from Rio...