Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans were made to interpolate in the Hoover itinerary after Lima a call on landlocked Bolivia. The Maryland was to halt off Antofagasta (Chile) and receive Bolivan officials on board. Chile, shocked and shaken by an earthquake (see p. 19) awaited with double eagerness the arrival of the famed U.S...
One of the veteran New York ship-news reporters, James Edmund Duffy, for ten years meeting boats for the Telegram, was frantically denounced in connection with his stories on the Vestris disaster. Supported by his paper, corroborated by reporters on other papers, last week he emerged hero of the occasion...
Pennsy officials last week anticipated no such alarming event. Many a railroad sends its passengers over leased lines.* Pennsy would not think of endangering its lease. And the benevolent I. C. C. at Washington would intervene to avert transportational disaster.
Fisk and his partner-Jay Gould of the dark, calculating eye-were apt pupils, useful aides in Drew's grim wrangle with Commodore Vanderbilt. Between them they trimmed the old war-horse in the Erie Railroad deal, and escaped melodramatically across the river (state line) with six millions of...
"The price of board at Memorial Hall for November was $4.67 which is less than was anticipated. The affairs of the Association however have reached a crisis. Men still continue to leave and if the number is further diminished the Association will be unable to go on after the holidays...