Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last June. "Time is of no consequence: he will work 24 hours without thought of rest. Weather never daunts him . . . No one awes him." The paper, about to start a new series by Reporter Gleason, listed some of his exploits: he had discovered the cause of a fatal 1956 explosion on a Brooklyn pier (improperly stored explosives); he had uncovered skulduggery in Manhattan's slum-clearance program; he had broken a story about the New York Transit Authority's having illicitly taped meetings of the Motormen's Benevolent Association. Gene Gleason, 32, was indeed in the mold...
...Then came the 1957 midsummer warning that an epidemic of Asian influenza was imminent, and physicians braced themselves for a test. Last week, in the London medical journal Lancet, two Irish investigators reported that Asian flu is a potent cause of fetal abnormalities, many of them fatal...
...bootleggers to their "Jamaica Jake" (a drink made with tincture of ginger), caused something like 20,000 paralysis cases in Prohibition days in Ohio, Kansas and other Midwest and Southern states. About the only good thing to say for the stuff is that it is almost never fatal...
...better than none, but it lacks so many of the factors usually found in blood that the patient loses some substances that are essential to life. Cellophane tubes of the type used in the artificial kidney will stop big protein molecules, so there should be no danger of a fatal antibody reaction. But they allow the blood's complex chemicals to pass freely if they are fully dissolved. So the protein-free part of the woman's poisoned plasma passed through both tube walls and into the sheep...
...cost $1,000,000. The race itself, which runs only nine minutes on the screen, ran three months before the cameras and cost another million. Three months before the shooting stopped, Production Manager Henry Henigson had a serious heart attack, and two weeks later Producer Sam Zimbalist had a fatal one. By the time the cameras had finally stopped rolling, MGM's London laboratories had processed, at a cost of $1 a foot, some 1,250,000 feet of special, 65-mm. Eastman Color film...