Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock today, in the continuation of a 64 years baseball rivalry. Harvard is running into a hard stretch of its schedule, and is suffering from a disorganization brought about by the Holy Cross batsmen in an exciting scoring surge in the ninth inning of Saturday's fatal clash in Worcester...
Commander Rosendahl said: "I am greatly grieved and shocked. ... It is the first time a fatal accident has occurred in the landing of a navy dirigible. . . . The accident may be ascribed to . . . the weather . . . and the inexperienced ground crew...
...detective assigned to the case. By means of some tricky work Faucet, ably and amusingly played by Francis Compton, decides that the only person who knows anything about the murder is Bobbie, for that pitiable person was of necessity in the room where the murder took place at the fatal moment. He then proceeds to question him about the murder, despite the fact that his only way of answering is by turning his head either toward or away from the inspector...
...fatal year 1929," said Professor Bonbright, "public utility executives and financiers were able to make a strong case for their assertion that the rapid and remarkable development of the country's electrical industry was due in large measure to the domination of that industry by a group of financially strong and well-managed holding companies. The early history of the light and power enterprise, as exemplified by the growth of United Gas Improvement system and of the Electric Bond & Share system, probably bore out this claim as valid for that period...
...Within the last few years the situation has completely changed. . . . Today the greatest structural weakness of the public utility industry in America?I say structural weakness in order to make an exception of the other far more fatal weakness, the low social standards of certain leaders of public utility finance?is the superstructure of the holding company and of the so-called investment company which in turn controls that holding company. . . . The change is three-fold and may be characterized by ... irrational consolidation. overcapitalization and uncontrolled service charges...