Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swift outbreak hit Chicago and suburbs. Almost every hour of every day last week, workers stuck a pin into a wall map in the office of Chicago's Health Boss Herman N. Bundesen. The red pins stood for new cases of paralytic polio, yellow for nonparalytic, black for fatal cases. By week's end there were 268 pins-166 red, 97 yellow, five black (as against 39 cases, two deaths, at the corresponding date last year...
...past, Congress and the Commerce Department have been reluctant to spend for air safety. But in view of last month's fatal collision, the supplemental appropriation is expected to fly through without a bump...
...political policy, he disagreed fundamentally with such top-flight Democrats as Adlai Stevenson and Averell Harriman, who say that Russia is winning diplomacy's chessboard battles and that the U.S. is losing. By his reckoning the Soviets have unleashed ferment and uncertainty within their sphere that are potentially fatal not to the U.S. but to Russia's own world position...
...closer and closer to Europe by way of the Mediterranean. To the tune of Russian peace flutes, the encirclement of Europe has concentrated on the Mediterranean. We are in one of the exciting phases of the cold war. If we fold our hands, the cold war will take a fatal...
Last week Andrew Sakacs died. By this time there was no doubt as to what killed him, or how he got his fatal infection. His was the first case of plague in southern California since 1936. But millions of flea-infested rodents constitute an ever-filled reservoir of the disease throughout the West and Southwest. The hopeful word from Lockwood Valley was that with the rodents already dead, the epizootic had burned itself out. Sakacs was a casualty only by rare and unhappy chance...