Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these requirements can be met, Airman Richardson did not say. The U.S. has no region like the desert of Australia where the British Commonwealth's missile center, Woomera ("Womb of Death" in the aboriginal language), has 1,200 miles of desolation to shoot over...
...Womb of Death. Looking far ahead, the Air Force likes the notion of a guided missile, an "uninhabited" aircraft, probably rocket-driven, to arch from continent to continent under remote control. No effective guided missiles are yet in existence, but Army, Navy, Air Force and the Research and Development Board are working hard-and optimistically-to perfect them. Last week they made a joint request of Congress for a Long Range Proving Ground. During 1949, said Air Force General Muir S. Fairchild, the U.S. will have a 500-mile missile ready for testing, with no place to test...
Next, tabloid readers paused over the pictures of three sad-eyed youngsters gazing at their bandage-wrapped sister in a hospital bed. Fourteen-year-old Roberta Lee Mason had saved her five brothers and sisters from death when fire destroyed their home in a Chicago suburb. The "fire heroine," said the Mirror, was "wrapped in her white badge of courage...
Early this month, doctors at a Manhattan hospital suspected that the substitute salt might have played a part in the death of a patient with heart disease. The Food & Drug Administration began experimenting, and found that heavy doses of lithium chloride killed laboratory animals. Then the FDA checked up on human patients taking the salt, found that they were suffering variously from drowsiness, weakness, loss of appetite, nausea, tremors, blurred vision, unconsciousness...
...Novelist Elizabeth Bowen has been based on a polished prose style and a special ability to write about sensitive children and young people in their first discovery of the compromises and dishonesties in the grown-up world. Her best-known novels (To the North, The House in Paris, The Death of the Heart) were so skillfully wrought that literary critics ranked them with the work of the late Virginia Woolf...