Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Saturday Evening Post story by George Bradshaw on which New Faces is based contained a first-rate comedy idea.. Its hero was a shoestring theatrical impresario whose method consisted of selling a show to several different backers, then making sure that the show was so bad it closed...
...fact that the Fourth of July makes the 129,000,000 inhabitants of the U. S. accident-conscious, the National Safety Council picked last week to publish the grim records of last year's accidents. One accident occurred every three seconds (total: 10,730,000), one accidental death every five minutes (total: 111,000) during the year. Wages lost on account of accidents amounted to $2,000,000,000. Other losses and expenses increased this...
Scene of most U. S. accidents in 1936, as for many years past, was the home. Slipping in bathtubs, electric shocks, scaldings, poisonings, burns and cuts from kitchen utensils killed 38,500 people. Close runner-up to home was the highway. Traffic accidents caused 37,800 deaths. Most dangerous State...
In 1896 Antoine Henri Becquerel of France left some uranium salts lying in the dark near a photographic plate. When he developed the plate he found that some sort of rays from the uranium, passing through a metal container and several other obstacles, had left an image on the plate...
Technician Brown, long at the profession and in a hurry, as everyone at busy Bellevue must be, told the girl to turn on her side for another view of her insides. As he slid a second cassette under her with his right hand, with his left he started to push...