Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Didier spent a pleasant weekend at Diamond Lake, Ill., swimming, sunning themselves, showing off their three-month-old baby to the neighbors. Then they started for home with little Robert, wrapped snugly in his blankets, tucked in a corner of the back seat. Suddenly the car jolted, the baby fell off the seat. When Mr. Didier stopped the car and picked him up, no wail or whimper came from the tightly wrapped flannel bundle. "He's suffocated, he's dead," cried the father...
...years ago, as Svend Hansen, 40, clipped hedges in an Irvington, N. Y. garden, he was stung on the leg by a bee, fell unconscious. Twelve hours later, Hansen was revived by adrenalin and artificial respiration. Last week, as he worked in the garden, he was stung on the neck by a bee. In 15 minutes Svend Hansen was dead...
Died. John May Warren, 8, whose photograph, grotesquely retouched, was released by Acme syndicate in 1933 as a baby picture of Adolf Hitler (TIME, March 5, 1934); when he fell from his bicycle, pierced his heart on a milk bottle; in Lakewood, Ohio...
...scattered in a turkey pen. This world's largest flour producer is the result of a 1928 merger of Washburn Crosby Co. and a handful of smaller concerns. In its first nine years of boom and depression, General Mills' net never rose above $4,609,000, never fell below $3,602,000. Last week, on General Mills' tenth anniversary, President Donald D. Davis released the company's financial statement for fiscal 1938 (ending May 31). Net income was $4,110,631, $192,758 below last year but fourth highest in its ten-year history. The company...
...anti-U. S. Nationalists (a terrorist minority) started shooting at police who had forbidden a parade. Last week, crashing over the heads of paraders and onlookers, a burst of gunfire suddenly ripped into the reviewing stand. A Puerto Rican Senator and 30 others dropped. A National Guard officer fell, fatally wounded. The shooters were Nationalist agitators who had denounced the celebration as a "shameless disgrace" to Puerto Rico. When police had restored order, killing one Nationalist, Governor Winship, unhurt, congratulated the excited crowd on "standing firm," called it "a most convincing proof that American institutions are understood here...