Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Riverside, Calif., a B-17 was heard to hiccough, splutter. Then there was an explosive crash. To death against a mountainside had ridden an Army B-17 crew, three officers, three enlisted men. Meantime the military flying services, speeding up training and tactical work, marked down their 59th fatal crash in 1940. Dead...
Under Medicine ("Fatal Tonsillectomy") in the Aug. 26 issue of TIME, you reported the death of Walter P. E. Freiwald Jr., "from too much ether in his lungs and brain," after the administration of an anesthesia by Dr. Charles T. Markert, osteopathic physician...
...Chicago sped Civil Aeronautics Bu-reaumen to investigate the third fatal crash on U. S. airliners since Aug. 30, after a flawless 17 months in which no airline passenger was killed. The cause of Trip 21's crash was a matter for public hearing, laboratory inspection of her engines, props and other remains. First news reports were that ice brought her down. United denied this report, pointed out that if Trip 21 was taking on ice. Pilot Scott would have reported it as airline rules prescribe, pointed out, too, that many other runs came in around the same time...
...Letter (Warner) is almost actionless. It opens with a murder, somewhat later shows a creepy sequence among hidden hallways in the Chinese quarter of Singapore. Otherwise the plot is unwound with conversation rather than movement - usually fatal for cinema. Furthermore, it is a rather conventional mystery story, the tale of a sly and devious wife (Bette Davis) of a British rubber planter (Herbert Marshall) who murders her lover when he appears to be losing interest. There is a trial, an acquittal, a day of reckoning. Moving, as it does, at a laggardly pace, it should, according to all the rules...
When handsome, tough-minded Rexford Guy Tugwell was a working member of the first Brain Trust, he made one mistake fatal to a politico. He talked out loud about unfamiliar and unpleasant things. His thesis: that the world and the U. S. were drifting away from laissez-faire, should make haste toward planned economy. So, after the 1936 election, Brain Truster Tugwell resigned from the New Deal...