Word: neb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stop & Look. Near Lisco, Neb., Benny Ovido stopped his car on a railroad crossing to make certain the tracks were clear, jumped free just before the car was demolished by a train...
...storm; hard drifts formed behind them almost as soon as they had passed. Trains were halted, one after another. When the storm ended there were six passenger trains in the yards at Omaha, eight in Ogden, five at Salt Lake City, five at Cheyenne, six stalled between Sidney, Neb. and Cheyenne...
...submission to the storm. But in Kansas, Mrs. Maxine Laughlin, 30, of Jetmore, who was eight months pregnant, got in her car and drove to Dodge City for a prenatal checkup. The car stalled; she set out afoot and was found dead in an eight-foot drift. In Stromsburg, Neb., Myron and Emeral Johnson bogged down in their car trying to reach a veterinarian with their sick dog. Somehow the dog staggered home but the brothers were found frozen to death in a field. Near Oberlin, Kans., an automobile aerial protruding from the snow led searchers to a suffocated motorist...
...daughter of a doctor, and married to a doctor, Leslie Kent was left a widow with a three-year-old child. Then she gave up the drugstore that she and her husband had owned in Lincoln, Neb., parked her child with friends and enrolled in the Lincoln Medical College...
From Bulgaria's goat-bearded ex-King Ferdinand, ruler for 31 years and royal exile for 30 more, to Gus Phillips (TIME, Feb. 24, 1941), a Falls City, Neb. railroad engineer, went a letter: "On account of my great age [87] and rather poor health, I am very glad and thankful when my dear overseas friends send a CARE package to me. Perhaps you also could help me by such a parcel." Gus, who once knew Ferdinand's railroad-crazy late son Boris (he once sent Boris a streamlined model electric train and got a diamond stickpin...