Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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How will McDonnell Douglas Corp., the nation's largest defense contractor with 1978 sales of $4.13 billion, weather the troubles afflicting its DC-10? Investors are taking a gloomy view. Since the Chicago disaster, the company's stock has dropped from $28.25 to $20.88.
But evidently something was not strong enough. In the evening, after the visiting architects had left the arena, a tremendous rainstorm hit the city, dumping 4 in. of rain in 30 minutes. Shortly after it began, Arthur LaMaster, the supervisor on duty in the deserted building, noticed water pouring down...
Two days after the collapse, James Stratta, a California civil engineer who specializes in the analysis of structural failures, was hired by Kansas City to investigate the disaster. After sifting through the debris, Stratta will review the architectural drawings, construct a model of the building and subject it to wind...
The latest in a succession of spectacular failures (including, besides Hartford, the collapse in 1978 of the snow-laden auditorium roof at the C.W. Post Center in Brookville, N.Y.), the Kemper disaster sent worried architects scurrying back to study their latest designs. There is widespread fear that the reputation of...
Because of the chemical's shell, the bee is at first unaffected and blithely returns to the hive to make honey. But the following spring, or even two years later, disaster strikes. Larvae and young bees eat the stored pollen that has been poisoned by the chemical and die...