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Word: accidentals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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"During the last four years, United has flown one billion, 600 million passenger miles without a single fatality. Even if we had an accident tonight, I would still believe that it is a good record."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WYOMING: Broken Record | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Damned if he did and damned if he didn't, Eisenhower had a bad week. A photographic accident that put a noose alongside Ike Eisenhower's balding head might have been symbolic. A news photographer caught it when a group of wives cornered the Chief of Staff in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Ike & the Noose | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

Recent Trend. In Queens, New York City, Mrs. Grace Raynor, collector of accident statistics, announced that the bedroom has replaced the bathroom as the room where the most accidents occur.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 21, 1946 | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

The lid-lifting also disclosed a taut, little major general who is as little known as the service which he heads. Alden Harry Waitt joined CWS when it was organized in 1918, has stayed with it ever since, taking time out to earn an aviator's wings and qualify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Into the Night | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

The new record was made almost by accident. The owner of the Lazy D.W.A. ("Gus") Delaney, 51, millionaire oilman (he made a reported $5,000,000 in the Fitts oil pool), had not intended to sell Del Zento. He changed his mind when he heard that there were three hot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMING: Hereford Heaven | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

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