Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were the seventh and eighth railway wrecks in Germany since the war began, bringing the total number of killed to 289, of injured to more than 250. Though no evidence of sabotage was found, rumors spread. A more likely cause, or contributing factor: bad condition of rolling stock and other equipment, which has not been properly repaired or replaced during Germany's five-year rush to rearm...
Such a commander is congenial to the Allied motto in this war: Waste No Lives. In World War I, Canada put 595,441 men under arms, sent 418,052 overseas, lost 62,594 dead, in a total of 218,433 casualties. This time the emphasis for Canada will be on airmen, not infantry and artillery. Last week the first squadron of the new Canadian Air Force to see action was selected. Nucleus: the City of Toronto Squadron, supplemented by pilots from east and west Canada. Commander: Squadron Leader Wilbur Van Vliet, 35, of Winnipeg, famed footballer...
...base of the brain, just above the brain stem, is a small patch of grey matter. Only one three-hundredth part of the total brain, the hypothalamus is concertmaster in the symphony of human behavior. Last week, in Manhattan, noted neurologists and psychiatrists from all sections of the U. S. met at the 20th annual convention of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease. For two days they did nothing but discuss, in the light of latest research, the orchestral effects of the hypothalamus, and pay tribute to the pioneer work of Chicago Neurologist Stephen Walter Ranson...
...John Boettiger took over the Post-Intelligencer it had just ended a 15-week-old strike, had been losing money even before that. (West Coast newsmen have guessed that it cost Hearst $2,000,000.) For the last few months, it has reputedly made a little money. While its total advertising lineage (6,800,000) in eleven months of 1939 was approximately the same as in 1937, in retail advertising it had gained 520,000 lines, a clear indication that local businessmen have confidence in John Boettiger and his paper...