Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accident Ward
¶In Czecho-Slovakia a workman called "Old Vacek" ran a crane at the great Skoda munitions works at Pilsen. One day a big ladle of molten lead being carried on Vacek's crane suddenly flipped over. It happened that a posse of German Army commissioners were passing beneath...
His conclusions are less metaphysical than those of Antoine de St. Exupery but not fundamentally different : "It was impossible to look only to oneself, to take from life and not to give except by accident . . . instinct had served them. Each time they climbed into their machines and looked off into...
¶Aide-de-Camp Blumenfeld was the only resentful Georgian who wrote complaining about TIME'S account of his Governor's accident.-ED.
Production-the job of getting armament built-remains under big, silver-topped William H. Harrison, a genial Irishman who talks out of the side of his mouth like a Brooklyn politician. Blue-eyed Bill Harrison started his career climbing telephone poles for $6 a week, worked up to vice president...