Word: zuckerman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dago Mangano never discounted the element of risk involved in business ventures; he always made it plain that he had no consuming ambition for power. Mike de Pike Heitler, Benjamin (Zookie the Bookie) Zuckerman and many others of his associates died noisily as the years passed, but Dago Mangano - "always prominent but never a big shot"-prospered in peace...
Mana-Zucca was born Mana Zuckerman, in New York City. She was musically prodigious. Her pressagents claim that, on her third birthday, she furiously demolished a toy piano because it had no F sharp and she could not play The Last Rose of Slimmer on it. Mana-Zucca made her debut as a pianist at eight with the New York Symphony under Dr. Walter Damrosch. Year later she published her first composition...
Last week the Berlin radio boasted that Germany has a superbomb which could kill men by concussion and destroy everything within a radius of 1,600 ft. The distance was incredibly great, but death by concussion is an established wartime fact. In an article by Dr. Solly Zuckerman, famed Oxford anatomist, the British medical journal The Lancet last week described the damage, often fatal, which may be done to lungs by explosions...
...World War I and the Spanish Civil War, dead soldiers, without any visible wounds, were found near the sites of heavy explosions. Sometimes bloody fluid trickled from their noses and mouths. Examination of the lungs showed hemorrhages, pleural lesion or collapse. Recently Dr. Zuckerman undertook for the Ministry of Home Security a series of experiments on pressure waves from explosions and the effect on lungs. Using piezoelectric recorders (crystals which convert pressure into electric current), he found that the blast from 125 lb. of high explosive builds up a pressure of 200 lb. per square inch at a distance...
...Zuckerman described one case of a man injured in a recent air raid. A medium-calibre bomb fell through the roof and exploded in the same room with him. His only external injury was deep laceration of the thigh, but he died in twelve hours. Autopsy disclosed numerous hemorrhages of the lungs...