Word: accidental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In their early seventies, the Dankowskes claimed to be the U. S.'s oldest caravanners; their "palace on wheels" was known from coast to coast. They had covered 300,000 miles, never had an accident. Three weeks ago, still heading for the horizon, still happy as newlyweds, the Dankowskes...
In Omaha, Neb. the Dankowskes' trail ended. In the first accident it had ever had, the Nomad collided with a policeman's car. Mrs. Dankowske, both legs fractured, was rushed to the hospital. Last week she was dead.
Should anyone have anticipated such an accident, devised means to prevent it?
Up From the Manure Pile. The News's touch with the common people is no accident, but the result of self-conscious effort on the part of its publisher, who is famed for his rough-&-ready dress, his brusque manners and his liking for rubbing shoulders with the proletariat...
Said he: "In the interest of good business, the Street simply cannot afford any avoidable major scandal, involving large losses to customers. ... In the Whitney failure, members of the public generally were not involved because the firm was not doing any large public business. But that was only good fortune...