Word: holocaust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack. According to the survivors, at least ten vessels were sunk. One of them was the Canadian destroyer St. Croix, formerly the U.S.S. McCook. The St. Croix was picking up the crews of other luckless vessels when a torpedo hit her. She went down in a small-size holocaust, taking all but one of her 147-man crew...
Assistant firemen will aid him in showing how such equipment as a pullmotor, various kinds of gas masks, and types of stretchers are used. Applying first aid to victims, a procedure which is said to have saved numerous lives in the Cocoanut Grove holocaust, will also be covered thoroughly in the talk. Under Walton's direction, the University ARP course was completely revamped and Red Cross courses applying strictly to air raid emergencies have been devised for those interested...
...hospitals and improvised morgues which were turned into charnel houses for the night, 484 dead were counted; it was the most disastrous U.S. fire since 571 people were killed in Chicago's Iroquois Theater holocaust in 1903. One Boston newspaper ran a two-word banner line: BUSBOY BLAMED. But the busboy had not put up the Cocoanut Grove's tinder-box decorations, nor was he responsible for the fact that Boston's laws do not require nightclubs to have fireproof fixtures, sprinkler systems or exit markers...
Meanwhile, a board of inquiry, headed by Fire Commissioner William A. Reilly strove to establish whether the holocaust involved criminal negligence, and if so, who were responsible for the fire trap...
Executive Secretary John J. Kearney of the Bartenders and Waiters Union testified that the night club patron blamed indirectly for the holocaust was a sailor who unscrewed a light bulb to darkon a corner so he could "mug" his girl friend...