Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racers were friends & relatives of 238 men in the mine. First to arrive manned the shaft elevators, went down into darkness. Tense minutes passed before they brought up more than 100 frightened, lucky men who had been near enough the shaft to race away from gaseous Death. Soon the fatal "black damp,"* cause and aftermath of most coalmine explosions, rushed up into the wooden shed, drove rescuers back gasping. They were frantic, unorganized. The company's president, William Ewing Tytus, its vice president, P. A. Coen and the mine's superintendent, Walter Hayden, were all down there...
...payment of obligations incurred by the Washington Luis Government since Oct. 3 upon the officials who authorized the expenditures; 3) postulated that, since the Brazilian Congress ceased to exist Oct. 3, whatever it has done since was never done at all-i. e. all laws passed since the fatal date are void; 4) failed to disgorge from prison one Horton Hoover (no relation). U. S. aviator arrested on a charge which remained indefinite last week. The fact that Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson recognized the Revolutionary Government while the Consul General in Sao Paulo was still struggling vainly...
...months, a gain of 12,468,590 mi. over the same period in 1929. There were 930 accidents, one for every 73,839 mi. of flight. In 1929 (spring) there was an accident every 72,612 mi. Schedule transport planes suffered six fatal accidents in 16,902,728 mi. flown?one per 2,817,121 mi., compared with one fatality every 1,022,871 mi. for the same period...
...flung radio network of the U. S. Navy crackled last week with messages of doom. The cruiser Pittsburgh, flagship of the Asiatic Fleet, heard its death-sentence at Tsingtao, China. Fatal news reached the cruiser Rochester, oldest U. S. fighting ship (TIME, Sept. 1) and flag-bearer of the Special Service (Caribbean) Squadron, at Corinto, Nicaragua. Lying at Philadelphia and Norfolk the battleships Florida and Utah received word that they were to be scrapped, the Utah taken to sea as target for aerial bombs and big guns. Sixteen destroyers were notified that their lives would soon be over. Twenty-five...
...Great Britain's bristling Viscount Rothermere, hurrying back last week from Adolf Hitler's bailiwick at Munich to his roaring London newspresses. "In Britain as yet," he added dolefully, "it [Youth] has no name or organization, but it is working just as strongly here as anywhere! . . . It would be fatal folly to hold it [Youth] back...