Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behold such a scene on Ivy Street, near Cain, he would not believe his eyes. Yet that scene is precisely what took place one evening last week, according to Mrs. Mildred Wilson, 23. Convincing enough to Atlanta police were the bruise on her head and the crimson slice (not fatal) around the throat of Negro Roy Peters...
...Christopher Dumaine, Amoskeag's treasurer and real boss, declared: "Nearly 1,000,000 New England spindles have gone to the scrap heap in the last few weeks. ... No management is competent to operate a plant like this, handicapped with . . . $2.56 [per week] average wage differential, which is particularly fatal to us as we have no mills in the South. . . . The two shift policy helps neither owners nor workers. . . . Until night work is stopped, neither the South nor the North will prosper. Domestic consumption does not warrant it, and our foreign market is vanishing...
...Ceiling Zero, Dizzy Davis, presented as the daredevil-great lover of the aeronautical world, goes back to work for Federal Air Lines at Newark, where he disrupts a pure romance between a hostess and the chief pilot, is partly responsible for a friend's fatal crash and at last goes out to die heroically in a fog over the Alleghenies. All this is accompanied by a buzz of ribaldry and shop talk (a program glossary explains that "cotton," "dirt," "gloom," "goo" and "bird-walking weather" all mean fog) from an assorted crew of mechanics, Government inspectors, plane manufacturers, insurance...
...were permitted to look at turtles, snakes, lizards and bats which had been frozen for four months and warmed back to life. The new technique involves quick freezing of the outside of the creature, slow penetration of the cold to the vitals. While sudden or "one-sided" warming was fatal, gradual and uniform warming brought successful revival...
Last week the Bureau of Air Commerce issued its annual accident report for 1934: airlines flew nearly 700.000 mi. per accident as compared to just over 500.000 mi. per accident in 1933. Of 73 accidents last year, ten were fatal, killing 21 passengers, ten pilots. Of 101 accidents in 1933, nine were fatal to eight passengers, eight pilots...