Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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> Natural disaster relief (except in instances of major disaster), which cost the U.S. $16 million last year.
¶Rejected the pleas of the governors of drought-hit Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts that their states be designated "disaster areas" requiring emergency federal aid, thus offered little hope to New Jersey and Maryland farmers who are also suffering a crop-searing dry spell. The New England drought situation...
As engineers and government experts surveyed the wreckage, rescue workers dug through the rubble. The scene of deepest disaster, a collapsed apartment building at Avenida Alvaro Obregón and Calle Frontera, which claimed the lives of 33 of its 45 residents, sent Builder Idel Rosenfelt to jail on charges...
Battling Air. When rockets are fired from the earth's surface, they cannot start fast. If they move too fast too soon, the dense, low-altitude air battles back ferociously, wasting the rocket's fuel and heating the structure to the disaster point. But slow starting has disadvantages...
Intrigue put Khrushchev into power, but he acts as if popularity will keep him there. No more beguiling or wilier demagogue has come down the pike in Soviet Communism's 40 years in power. "In our agriculture, Comrades," he told a Czech audience last week, "we see a great...