Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Now, my dears," said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor."
¶ACS is usually made by injecting horses with cells from the spleens and bone marrow (bloodmaking tissues) of human corpses, preferably young, healthy people who died by accident. The final product is an extract of the horses' blood.
W Is for War. But, two years ago, after he had become pretty well, he had a very bad accident. Two years ago, on the seventh of December, he got into a pretty bad smashup -broke his hip, broke his leg in two or three places, broke a wrist and...
But at the present time the principal emphasis, the overwhelming emphasis, should be on winning the war. In other words, we are now suffering from that bad accident, not from an internal illness.
Training went as rapidly. Men now in training every day number over 120,000. In 1943 the A.A.F. flew over 3,352,000,000 miles in the U.S. alone, which accounts for a seemingly alarming rate of A.A.F. accidents. Actually, reported Hap Arnold, the accident rate is lower than the...