Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another war but Manila's worst earthquake since 1882. Half an hour later it was followed by another almost as severe. One resident of nearby Cavite died of heart-failure. Sixty-two were injured, some by falling power lines, some in stampedes out of crowded cinema theatres. When the lights were finally turned on again, the Escolta, Manila's main street, was littered with broken glass, parts of the city were flooded by snapped water mains. The nine-story Great Eastern Hotel-whose terrified guests rushed out of their rooms more or less dressed-had settled four inches...
...reached solid tracks beyond. But the second locomotive and the whole train behind piled up in the ditch. Eleven of the wooden cars telescoped or were splintered to matchwood. There was no fire, but when rescuers from Chatsworth reached the spot they found 81 dead, 372 injured -Illinois' worst railroad wreck...
...expected, Tom Girdler's Republic Steel made the worst showing in "Little Steel.* The strike centred on Republic, as the official release from the Girdler office understated it, "because of its determined efforts to carry on operations." Earnings in the June quarter were only $487,000, as against $5,500,000 in the preceding quarter and $2,600,000 in the June quarter, 1936. Embattled Youngstown Sheet & Tube managed to clear $2,000,000, off 20% from the June quarter the year before and considerably less than half what it made in the March quarter this year. Bethlehem Steel...
...turns out to be his grandmother, and his father, who finally divulges the facts about Christopher's parentage, which "is both better and worse than the reader thought. In chains after making mincemeat of two burly guards, dreamy six-foot Christopher defies his captors to do their worst, says he means to guarantee Victoria's accession to the throne. Having made good many pages later, Christopher asks nothing in return except a royal document canceling his actress friend's unsavory beginnings as a prostitute's daughter...
...lonely traveler dreading my first Remarked, "I am all my second. My third is coming, I fear the worst, on a friendly second I reckoned." And then a smile o'er his features stole For he heard the perfect voice of my whole...