Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several months ago Soviet papers factually reported such a misfortune as Arctic scientists constantly risk in their perilous lives: unpredictably heavy ice at the beginning of the winter of 1937 had trapped an unusually large number of icebreakers in Siberian waters. This has been known for months, but suddenly last...
First report was that the cancer medicine which Dr. Neal used was an enzyme solution called "Ensol," invented and patented by Dr. Calvin Hendry Cameron Connell of Kingston, Ontario (TIME, Oct. 14, 1935). This started a chain of misunderstandings. Dr. Connell,who has distributed 125,000 bottles of "Ensol" promptly...
¶ For three years at his airplane plant at Evere, in suburban Brussels, Belgian Manufacturer Alfred Renard has been busy planning a revolutionary high-flying transatlantic machine. Partly financed by his government, and advised by Stratospherist Professor Auguste Piccard, he built a 14,500-lb., 1,950-h.p., trimotored plane...
John Pierpont Morgan sued Manhattan's Sound & Harbor Towing Corp. for $3,500. Reason: A scow towed by a tug bumped his 343-foot, turboelectric yacht, Corsair. Banker Morgan accused the tugboat pilot of 1) negligence, 2) attempting to leave the scene of the accident.
Died. Baroness Eva Dickson von Blixen-Finecke, 30, British sportswoman and air enthusiast; in an automobile accident; near Baghdad, Iraq. The young Baroness, second wife of Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, hunted lions in Africa, drove racing cars in Europe, in 1935 went to Ethiopia to ''watch the...