Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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aviation must be closely regulated with a new system of carefully laid out super highways for jets and a network of secondary "roads" set aside for other, slower planes. The alternative is to hamper the growth of aviation and greatly increase the possibility of disaster for those who fly.
¶ "Disaster insurance to protect our people from the ravages of nature." Democrat Johnson had designed his election-year program, he said, to show the voters that "ours is the party with a heart." His skillful formulation was welcomed by most of his fellow Democrats.
"I thought it was an atomic bomb," said Eyewitness Jean Bainville later. It was not that bad, but the freak landslide that hit Nicolet was a sizable disaster. Three people were killed and 15 injured in the collapsing buildings. The property loss was estimated at more than $2,000,000...
Inevitably, with the market some 25% above the 1929 peak on the Dow-Jones industrial average, there are comparisons to '29-and the disaster that overtook small (as well as big) investors. But there is as little resemblance between the '55 and '29 markets as there is...
The Western United States, and therefore the country as a whole, faces bank-ruptcy and disaster if today's meager water supplies are not carefully conserved, prominent historian and author Bernard DeVoto '18 warned last night.