Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second fatal explosion in three months in a U.S. hospital (TIME, Feb. 18). As before, no one knew immediately just what touched off the gas, though static electricity at some point near the anesthetic circuit was accepted as the general cause. City hospital officials began a thorough investigation last week, but one fact was established immediately: though Cumberland had taken careful precautions (cotton gowns for the surgeons, metal chains on the anesthetic machine), its operating-room floor was tile, and lacked a grounded grid of conductive material, e.g., copper, to drain off static electricity. The U.S. Bureau of Mines...
...going to have any fatal accidents in this city if we can possibly help it." McCarthy announced yesterday...
Boston police are awaiting an autopsy report on George G. Woods 1G before beginning investigation of his fatal 11-story fall yesterday...
...same day, he won a more important victory, psychologically, in Nebraska. There he dealt a fatal blow to the campaign of Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr, the man who said he would run if Truman didn't. The count: Kefauver 64-111, Kerr 41,889. Kerr said he was still running, but he was only a 72-hour candidate: a serious contender from Saturday night, when Truman withdrew, until Tuesday night, when the Nebraska results came...
...entertain servicemen overseas Songstress Froman suffered near-fatal injuries in a 1943 Lisbon Clipper crash. Two years later, after 14 operations, she returned to Europe propped on crutches and toured more than 30,000 miles to sing for wounded G.I.s...