Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What actually kills a man in an airplane crash? In some cases the cause of death may be his own internal organs. Reason: the impact turns them into internal missiles. So reported an Army doctor (Captain George Marvin Hass of the Army Air Forces School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, Texas) last fortnight to the Aero Medical Association's meeting at Cincinnati...
...delay on the ground fronts can save Germany from air attack on a scale which will dwarf all that the Germans have suffered to date. Sooner or later Italy-and surrendered Corsica-will provide bases for a southern air offensive coordinated with multiplied assault from Britain. Then, under the impact of defeats and bombs, the German people may have something to say about Hitler's choice...
...Francie and her brother collecting junk in the Brooklyn slums; purchases of five-cent soup bones, stale bread and smashed pies; the traditional childhood customs and mores of the Brooklyn streets. Example: storekeepers on Christmas Eve tossed their unsold trees at children; if the children stood upright under the impact of a tree, they could have it free...
...points Professor Sorokin claims that the draft will have a vicious impact on the American family. Biologically, he claims, it will probably lower the birth-rate "if the men are away for a long time," and economically the draft will "lower the material standard of living" of the average family...
...most eloquent and outspoken programs in radio history (An Open Letter to the American People). With no bombast and with a great deal of level, direct statement, CBS told the story of Detroit's recent race riot (TIME, June 28) and told it with the special impact possible in radio. The fact that a major U.S. network had the courage and took the time to emphasize a crisis in race relations was big radio news...