Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1910 you could have procured a similar accident insurance policy from North American Accident Insurance Co. by inserting a dime in a machine issued by the long since defunct International Vending Machine Co. Every station of Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Co. was decorated with three or four of these machines...
Mr. Womack, deaf and 60, sat aloof, his hand cupped to his ear, as indignant insurance adjusters and store managers recognized not only Bertha Mae but his three daughters. Mrs. Mildred Felis, Mrs. Anna Ehrman, Mrs. Blanche Miller, their three husbands, and a family friend named Miss Margaret Robertson. Apparently...
The late U. S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935), married but childless, had a lifelong professional interest in pregnant women. When he was two (1843) and again when he was 14 (1855), his father, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (Autocrat of the Breakfast Table), initiated campaigns to make...
Fire. Seven thousand miles away in Washington, shocked by the line's second and by far most costly fatal accident,* Pan American's president, Juan Terry Trippe, sorrowfully announced: "Everyone connected with Pan American Airways is grieved beyond expression. . . . The death of Captain Musick and his crew is...
So meticulously efficient was Ed Musick that his concentration on safety in the minutest flight detail was a legend in U. S. aviation. He would not tie up to a buoy unless it was tested. To many an aviator his amazing good judgment made the Pago Pago accident something of...