Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before going to Key West, Harry Truman had taken time off to dedicate a new children's wing of the Georgetown University Hospital. There he dropped in on three-year-old Sharon Meenehan, the victim of an automobile accident. Sharon, who had both legs in casts held straight up...
In 1935, when the ranch trusteeship expired, the property was divided among the heirs.* The Klebergs got 431,000 acres and formed the King Ranch Corp. with Bob as president and manager, and Dick, then a Congressman, as chairman. The stock is held in equal fifths by Bob, Dick, their...
In 5½ years as the A.T.C.'s foremost flying chauffeur, most of Colonel Myers' flights have been routine. Since piloting Franklin Roosevelt to Yalta in 1945, Myers has logged 48,000 presidential miles. His passenger roster has included Congressmen, Cabinet members, Generals. In his 17 years of...
From the records of 9,348 pilots who had had two or more flying accidents, Dr. Horn found that 15% (five times the normal expectancy) had a second accident within 30 days after their first. It seemed to make no difference whether the pilot himself was at fault in his...
Hill himself quit a $15,000 job as superintendent of Pittsburgh's schools to go back South "because I can do more here than anywhere else." Hill landed in education quite by accident; while recuperating from an auto crash in Arkansas, he took a job teaching-for $65 a...