Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wealthy American oil men, Arthur and Joseph Steep, of Oil City, Pa., and their pilot, Gabriel Poulain, were killed in a crash near Le Bourget, France-the fatal end of a 30-mile pleasure trip. Poulain achieved many exploits during the War, and on July 9, 1921, won the Peugeot prize of 10,000 francs for flying a distance of 35 feet and rising more than three feet in a man-driven airplane. This was achieved in the " aviette," a combination of bicycle and biplane, which rose after a rapid run on the ground. Poulain's death will...
...fallible human equation of the locomotive engineer which has caused so many fatal train wrecks will be completely eliminated by a system of automatic train control tried out with " extremely encouraging results " on a 50-mile stretch of track of the Pennsylvania Railroad between Lewistown Junction and Sunbury, Pa. It is a combination of electrical, pneumatic and mechanical devices applied to both track and locomotive. The track is electrified with alternating current. The locomotive picks up the current by induction. This power operates three cab signals to the engineer, but at the same time turns on the air-brakes...
...recent bulletin of the Hygienic Laboratory of the U. S. Public Health Service. It is caused by the Bacterium tularense, which is transmitted to man by the bite of the blood-sucking fly, bedbug and similar insects from infected rabbits, squirrels and rodents. The disease is seldom fatal to humans, but is accompanied by pains, septic fever lasting from three days to six weeks, prostration, swollen and suppurating lymph glands, and ulcers on the site of the bite, followed by several months of convalescence when the patient is unable to work. It is found in rural populations in harvest time...
...government experts discovered the disease among ground squirrels and jackrabbits in California, to which it is particularly fatal. Surgeon Edward Francis, who was in charge of the investigation, contracted tularaemia, as did several other workers. No effective treatment has yet been found...
...Fatal meddling with Carmen's effective finale...