Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Clarence Birdseye, 69, who started his career as a teen-age taxidermist, later pioneered in the development of quick-frozen foods; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan (see BUSINESS...
...fighters during World War I, developed Britain's first all-metal plane, pioneered in aircraft streamlining, won a knighthood (1942), later (March 1956) saw a Fairey Delta 2 jet push the world's official speed record for conventional planes to 1,132 m.p.h.; of a heart ailment; in London...
...guided missile, went on to invent a device to photograph sound, a system of radio torpedo control, a drop-proof cigarette ash and a golf putter that lit up when swung correctly, turned out some 30 books of history, science prophecy, weapons development and scientific theory; of a lung ailment; in London...
Died. Dr. Alfred Charles Kinsey, 62, zoologist, statistician, and top-ranking authority on gall wasps, whose team in 1948 turned out the bestseller Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, later (1953) scored again with the companion volume Sexual Behavior in the Human Female; of a heart ailment and pneumonia: in Bloomington, Ind. (see MEDICINE...
Died. Baron Constantin von Neurath, 83, onetime (1932-38) German Foreign Minister, who became "Protector" of Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, was replaced by Reinhard ("The Hangman") Heydrich (1941) after a wave of unrest; of a heart ailment; at Enzweihingen, Germany...