Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thriller, were: a draftsman who had for several years inspected the Army's secret Norden bombsight; an engineer for the Sperry Gyroscope Co., which makes the bombsight and other vital instruments of war; a steward on a Pan American Clipper; a woman sculptress and playwright; a tool and die maker; Axel, the brother of Bund-ster James Wheeler-Hill; 63-year-old Frederick Joubert Duquesne, writer, lecturer and shadowy figure of World War I, said by Hoover to be head of the ring and a "professional spy"; Lilly Barbara Carola Stein, mop-haired artist's model, whose tiptoe...
...clean-cut, abstemious young men in pluperfect health need apply. Those are the boys the U.S. Army wants for its fliers. And then what happens? After these super men fly a few years, some of them become irritable, neurotic, deaf,with stomach trouble, nightmares, high blood pressure, liable to die several years before their time from heart disease. Such a dismaying picture of fliers' occupational diseases might be put together from the solid medical handbook for fliers published last week by famed Army Flight Surgeons Malcolm Cummings Grow and Harry George Armstrong (Fit to Fly-Appleton-Century...
...leader of the London County Council he tore down "undoubtedly beautiful" but shaky Waterloo Bridge amid loud outcries, built a bridge that could be crossed. He also tore down slums, ran up housing projects, created a Green Belt around London. Morrison, says Author Strauss, would "cheerfully die at the barricades to defend the sewage system of London." Mrs. Strauss admits that Herbert's "dictatorial methods" are justified by results, but she cannot forgive him the remarks he made during the Popular Front fight...
...defense business, has written to hundreds of prime contractors. Only result: an invitation from Detroit's Defense Contract Service office to bid on two British fuses. Yet the company has 200 machine tools (only eight of them usable for the fuses), a trained engineering staff, 16 tool & die makers, plenty of plant space for defense work...
...manufacturer, Doehler Die Casting now employs 2,000 v. a norm of 4,000. Most other large manufacturers and users of die castings do not yet admit to curtailment of production. But practically all either see real trouble ahead or are thinking wishfully about substitutes...