Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only one doctor for some 2,000 men, women, children. All children and most adults were reported mildly sick, vastly terrified at the thought of an epidemic. Last week Death came to Matanuska Valley colonists for the first time, taking a 4-year-old ill with measles and pneumonia...
...York World sent Flyers Floyd Bennett, who was half-sick, and Bernt Balchen flying to Greenly Island. They landed at Lake Ste. Agnes near Murray Bay, where Bennett could go no farther. A plane returned him to a hospital in Quebec where he developed a fulminating case of pneumonia. Pneumonia serum available at the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan might save Floyd Bennett's life. Charles Augustus Lindbergh sped to the Rockefeller Institute, snatched a supply of pneumonia serum, sped to his plane, flew to Quebec. But Floyd Bennett died...
Died. Karl Kingsley Kitchen, 50, Manhattan columnist, epicure and man-about-town, onetime War correspondent and author (After Dark in the War Capitals, The Night Side of Europe); of a streptococcic infection and pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Died. Edson Bradley, 83, retired broker and distiller; after long illness (pneumonia); in London. Broker Bradley entered the whiskey business as a young man at Frankfort, Ky., was president of the "Whiskey Trust" for twelve years. Famed Bradley brands: Old Crow, Old Hermitage. No less famed was the Bradley mansion in Washington, with its 500-seat theatre, known as Aladdin's Palace. Tiring of Washington, Distiller Bradley had his home moved stone by stone to Newport...
Died, William Haynes Truesdale, 83. retired president and board chairman of Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad ; of bronchial pneumonia; in Greenwich, Conn. Harddriving, he opposed legislative restrictions on railroads, wage increases and eight-hour-day laws. During his term (1899-1925) D. L. & W. paid $192,000,000 in cash dividends on a property worth...