Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Here I am an old man, and still working." In its 82 years, the Metropolitan has had only six presidents. It began as the National Union Life and Limb Insurance Co., formed to insure the lives of soldiers & sailors fighting in the Civil War, was still getting organized when the...
Having picked up its Rockville Centre passengers, No. 175 headed up the gantlet toward New York City again. James Markin, in the motorman's cubicle, started to pick up speed, had time only to yank his whistle before disaster struck.
This movie is well worth seeing for its combat shots alone. Taken by the AAF in action over Germany, these pictures capture the perspective of air warfare--the instant disaster inherent in any given moment. The shots of daylight bombing of a German ball-bearing plant are remarkable examples of...
Disaster. For a while his luck held. He bought up a lease with only eleven days to run, gambled on drilling before its expiration date. It rained night & day for the whole eleven days. McCarthy toiled in knee-deep, liquid mud for days at a stretch, drove his men to...
Then one disaster after another hit him: a derrick collapsed, a well blew out and started a quarter-million-dollar fire. McCarthy invaded the Palacios district, sank $700,000 in leases, a million dollars in equipment, drilled five disappointing wells at once and went broke. By the time his mansion...