Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mystery surrounds the circumstances under which the first year law student met his death. Police and friends are completely at a loss to tell why he jumped, fell, or was thrown into the Charles River. The doctor performing the autopsy stated death was accidental and that the backbone was broken by the fall. At noon, Saturday, November 13, he was apparently in good spirits and in good health as he joked with his roommate and friends in Perkins Hall...
Financial matters offered "outstanding questions" to 21% of the churchgoers-debts, unemployment, loss of property...
...Under better physiological conditions, with a simplified cockpit and an enlarged crew, there would be greater safety, fewer pilot errors, fewer crashes, less loss of life and equipment and great revenue from a more confident public. There would be a less rapid turnover of pilots and a longer useful service, and they would live a longer and more healthful life...
Referring to the loss of Odell and Crowther, he said. "It is only natural that assistant coaches should be desirous of bettering themselves whenever possible and we must consider it a good sign here at Harvard when our assistants are in demand by other colleges...
Bootlegging. In Philadelphia & Reading's petition under the Bankruptcy Act it cited the loss by 'legging of 4,000,000 tons annually. But this highly publicized illicit trade is no longer what it was. Several States have legislated against bootleg coal, leaving Philadelphia almost the sole market; surface outcrops suitable for bootleg mining are approaching exhaustion. Bootlegging never accounted for more than 8% of the total anthracite output, probably employed only 20,000 men at its peak. Last week the Commission guessed that it now employs...