Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mansion of the dead...
...December blizzard that blotted out the lights of the village, stalled the train. Without a second's warning the mile-a-minute Edinburgh-Glasgow express following the local crashed into it. Rescuers, lighted by bonfires made of debris from shattered wooden coaches, took out 91 injured, 35 dead-Britain's worst rail-road disaster in two decades...
Characteristically, Dr. Bundesen went into action with a white mouse into whose abdomen he injected fluid taken from the blood of one of the dead babies. In three hours the mouse died, a press photographer on hand to record the scene. From Manhattan, Dr. Bundesen ordered 15 monkeys for further experimentation. They got out of their cages in his office and had to be baited with peanuts and netted with wire wastebaskets. This episode was also photographed...
...nursery of Chicago's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, an institution with no isolated facilities for maternity care, operated by the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ. It was the nation's most serious outbreak of this disease. By last week eleven of 19 affected children were dead, only two definitely out of danger...
...last week the score of those who took the so-called elixir,* according to the U. S. Pure Food & Drug Administration which wants Dr. Massengill to show cause why he should not be prosecuted for criminal carelessness, stood at: 73 dead "as a direct result of taking the drug," and 20 more dead for whom "it has not yet been established that this drug was exclusively responsible...