Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life to a swift close. That afternoon the House rejected the Senate's Canal amendment, 108-to-62. Next morning the Senate, convening after a recess in honor of its dead colleague, accepted the House's action without protest, let Duncan Fletcher's ditch die with...
...into the street, was killed by an automobile driven by Alma Gluck Zimbalist, soprano wife of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist. Under his oxygen tent at Riverside, Calif. Comedian W. C. Fields (Poppy), fighting pneumonia, was shown a newspaper picture of himself with the caption "Improved." Cracked he: "If I die tonight, they can say I died 'improved...
Average daily U. S. death rate is 3,800 persons. Many die far from home, have to be shipped back, which on railroads costs two first-class tickets per corpse. Last week many a Midwestern undertaker, just back from a convention at Springfield, Ill., was pondering this transport problem, wondering if he could turn it to his advantage. The convention had discussed using airplanes instead...
Beginning last November, John Lewis has welded nine A. F. of L. industrial unions, representing a third of the Federation's numerical strength, into the Committee for Industrial Organization. C. I. O.'s program is to let existent craft unions die on the vine, henceforth take into the A. F. of L. only industrial unions. A. F. of L.'s Executive Council issued last Janu ary the first of two orders commanding C. I. O. to disband. Miner Lewis impudently replied in March by offering to put up $500,000 if the A. F. of L. would...
Before Dr. Hart rigged up his germ killing light barrage, one out of 25 patients on whose chests he operated used to die from infections. No infections developed after he began using the barrage. Without the barrage incisions required an average of 21 days to heal. With the barrage the average fell to nine days. Besides, "improvement in the entire convalescence was good. There was less postoperative pain...