Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Total value of U. S. war material shipments to Germany since 1935 is $1,634,227-barely enough to kill 65 soldiers, since the average cost of a war death is estimated at $25,000. Last week, 20,000 bombs, sold by Atlas Powder Co. of Wilmington, Del. were hoisted aboard North German Lloyd's freighter, Frankcnwald, before the freighter upped anchor for Bremen. The bombs, last of four shipments sold "to parties in the U. S.," cleared by the State Department, were for transshipment when they reach Germany. Where the shipment would eventually wind up, no official would...
...young men were starting a new repertory company, play-goers waited with lively interest but natural distrust to see what Orson Welles, 22, and John Houseman, 35, would do with their Mercury Theatre. One bedrock essential that Welles & Houseman apparently lacked was cash. But after a succession of muffled death-rattles backstage, the Mercury came to its first play's first night. On November 11 it produced Julius Caesar. On November 12 the public was informed that Shakespeare's five-act classic had: 1) been turned into a one-act cyclone, 2) on a bare stage...
Present in the audience were Bacteriologist-Author Paul de Kruif (Men Against Death, The Fight for Life), State Representative Edward P. Saltiel, who sponsored the Illinois premarriage syphilis-test bill passed last year. In the play, Representative Saltiel is the hero of two scenes laid in the State Legislature. Outside in the theatre's lobby, the Chicago Board of Health had set up a testing station offering free syphilis tests. Some 15 first-nighters stepped...
...Madison Avenue, where Mrs. Kimball runs a children's bookstore, the happy family was not only visiting but also on sale. The triplets are indeed the children of Jean de Brunhoff, but only in a mental sense. For five years, until his death last October, M. de Brunhoff delighted children and adults with tales of two adventurous elephants, Babar and Celeste. Last week Mrs. Kimball opened a bundle from Paris with the latest Babar book and found that Celeste had become the mother of three little elephant babies (see cut). She decided that this was news for the Herald...
Good scientists are insatiably curious. Sociologist Ray H. Abrams of the University of Pennsylvania, wondering how long a widower waits after the death of a first wife before getting married again, decided to explore the pages of Who's Who in America. Thousands of eminent widowers never remarry. But Dr. Abrams found 1,333 entries in Who's Who giving the date of a first wife's death and that of a second marriage. Among these remarrying widowers he found that the average interval was not very long-about two and a half years...