Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most parachute injuries are leg fractures and ankle sprains. Captain William J. Tobin of Fort Benning reported that since the adoption last June of a new technique of landing with both feet together instead of shoulder-width apart (the old technique-see cut), parachute injuries have dropped from 1.54% to 1%. In 250,000 jumps since July 1940, there have been only nine deaths...
...with two reasons for the British liking for cartels: 1) England has never had antitrust legislation such as ours, thus cannot understand such legislation in the U.S. nor the fear of the American people of concentrated power in private hands; 2) the British view of capital is poles apart from the American...
Through Calcutta's crowded streets a destitute army over 100,000 strong roamed foodless, homeless, hopeless. Families were jerked apart as mothers peddled daughters for a few rupees. Sons committed suicide to conserve scanty family stores. All around lay the hunger-shriveled dead awaiting, sometimes for hours, the arrival of corpse-removal squads...
...worth of castings and ordered them scrapped-after repeated warnings to National Bronze that defective parts would kill U.S. flyers-the company patched up the parts, changed the serial numbers and shipped them back to Packard as new parts. Some of the castings were so weak they fell apart when touched. The trial brought out greed as the reason for the plot: National Bronze got $270 a Ib. for accepted castings v. only 15? a Ib. for those scrapped...
Surgeons now depend on 1) thin grafts which can be done in one operation; 2) a skin flap from near by; 3) a tubed pedicle (when some thickness is needed) which requires three operations about three weeks apart...