Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Naval Court of Inquiry investigating the wreck of the dirigible Shenandoah sat for a second week at Lakehurst, N. J. The chief testimony taken dealt with air conditions at the time of the disaster and the chief witness was Captain Anton Heinen, German Zeppelin pilot, for years employed as...
When Captain Heinen took the stand he was questioned with some asperity because he had said previously to the press: "They will appoint the usual whitewashing inquiry board to camouflage this disaster and its cause, but every man at the Air Station knows why it happened. That accounts for the...
Railroad employees in a "North country" city, Valleyhead, which is singularly dependent on the line in question for all the necessities of life, stirred by a rabid socialist, strike precipitately. The unyielding owners, as also the rest of the community, for the issue is clearly defined, must eventually capitulate or...
A model of the great ship hung suspended by wires over the heads of the inquiry officers, while the survivors filed in, were sworn, told their stories and were examined. The stories were fragmentary and mostly technical, no exact cause of or blame for the disaster being readily deducible from...
A railroad train is thundering through the night, between Boone, la., and Council Bluffs. The engineer is sick, fainting. The fireman drunk, at his post, does not know. On the block of track a mile ahead, a wheezy freight grumbles up a grade, behind schedule and on the flier's...