Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One loud voice of doom was heard in the land last week. It belonged to Montgomery Ward & Co.'s hard-bitten Chairman Sewell Avery, who has been preparing for disaster for the last three years. To the stockholders of U.S. Gypsum, which he also heads, Avery reported that the...
The largest group of bystanders was gathered around a station wagon which had been beached on an island of sludge. I asked a lady in grey uniform what had happened, was there an accident? She turned around and presented me with a paper cup: "No, this is a rehearsal for...
I inquired of a lady who was wearing officer's insignia on her uniform what all this meant. "We're members of the Cambridge Red Cross Disaster Committee. We got an alert at 2:20 to come to the Common and we all rushed over here. I think it's...
The crowds around the station wagon had begun to disintegrate and several of the ladies were asking if they could go now. The lady-in-charge said they might as well as long as they were sure their names had been checked off. One of the ladies came up and...
Over a hundred spectators tied up traffic on Garden Street to watch firemen, policemen, the Red Cross, and Cambridge city officials participate in the disaster drill. This mobilization of the Civilian Defense units followed Congressional recommendations to test the efficiency of such a practice in peacetime.