Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the Cambridge Police continued to hand out parking tickets and bark sarcastic comments from their Harvard Square kiosk, another accident took place last week at Memorial Drive and DeWolfe Street. This time it was fatal. The dangerous intersection still boasts one frequently ignored stop sign and a faded white line that theoretically projects pedestrians. But most cars roll straight through the crossing, others charge the wrong way up one-way DeWolfe. Two serious accidents have already occurred there this year; it is surprising that there haven't been more...
...hundred Dunster and Leverett House men sent a petition to Governor Dever Monday asking that a traffic signal be placed at the corner. A fatal accident Friday night, the second serious accident in two months, instigated the action...
After five months in Johns Hopkins Hospital, following a stroke and heart attack which doctors predicted would be fatal, H. L. Mencken checked out for home, sardonically tipped his hat to the Y.M.C.A. as he passed, then asked what was playing at the local theater. Told it was Tarzan's Peril, Mencken replied firmly, "I shall not be there...
...Adoption of the [Wherry] resolution would be a simple, direct notice to Stalin that we do not intend to back up our men in Europe and that they and Europe are his for the asking." The U.S. had given that kind of notice before, with fatal results: to the Kaiser and to Hitler, both of whom had been sure that "America would not intervene." The U.S. had announced "in substance," said Dewey, that it would not defend Korea, "and again the aggressor moved in." The Wherry resolution would be taken "as a signal that the U.S. has hauled down...
Lusty Giant. Last year the combined net operating income of the 16 big trunk lines was $51 million, a 50% gain over the 1949 figure. Profits are headed still higher this year (TIME, Feb. 12). Fatal accidents have dropped from 28 per 100 million passenger-miles in 1930 to 1.3 in 1949 (v. .08 for railroads and 2.0 for autos and taxis). Air travel accounted for 2.9% of intercity passengers carried by public carriers in the U.S. in 1950 (v. 37.1% for trains and 60% for buses) and 11.5% of the total passenger-miles racked up. But, said CAB Vice...