Word: ruine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best-hated prisoner at Fort Jefferson among the Northern officers in command was Dr. Mudd. Made a hospital orderly, he endured for a few weeks the knowledge of his innocence, of his family's ruin and disgrace, the contempt of his Negro guards. Then he tried to escape. After that he put in twelve hours per day at hard labor under a broiling sun, his legs weighted with heavy irons. The other twelve hours he spent chained hand & foot in a small, solitary dungeon, wet, hot, swarming with mosquitoes and vermin. His legs and arms swelled...
...Tortugas there now lives permanently only the lighthouse crew at Loggerhead Key. The Carnegie Marine Biological Station on Loggerhead is occupied about three months of the year. During bird-breeding season a keeper or two go out to Bird Key. Fort Jefferson is a deserted ruin. The Navy took it over during the Spanish-American War, spent $800,000 on a coaling station and other improvements, abandoned it. Since then Cuban and U. S. fishermen have carried away everything of value. The moat and some of the brickwork are intact but the rest is a shambles of stripped roofs, crumbled...
...twelve brokerage houses, biggest of which was Merrill, Lynch & Co. Pierce's network of wires spread fanwise across the country, reaching into Canada. Soon the company was universally recognized as the largest wire house on the New York Stock Exchange. When Germany was on the brink of financial ruin in 1931, brokers chuckled: "Nothing to worry about; E. A. Pierce will take them over." All during Depression the firm gathered brokerage houses into its system, until Wall Street lost track of mergers, found it easier to count active partners of which there were 14 in 1928, 21 last month...
...chance. Sheean saw Borodin daily, was impressed by the man's philosophy, the "long view" of the theoretical Marxist who regarded immediate events as meaningless unless related to other events in the past and future. Friendship with Borodin, and with Sun Yat-sen's widow, helped ruin Sheean as a practicing journalist. A U. S. girl named Rayna Prohme played the dominant part in the sea-change...
...Unless we change our course ... we will unquestionably bring ruin upon the entire body politic...