Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser (pronounced Warehouser), 72, youngest son of the founder of the vast Northwest lumber empire (Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.), who became its president, expanded it geographically and financially, modernized its sales tactics, became one of the nation's wealthiest men; of pneumonia; in St. Paul. In 1935 the comparatively unpublicized Weyerhaeuser name became front-page news when F. E.'s grandnephew George was kidnapped and ransomed...
...where the great novelist died 35 years ago. After a last bitter quarrel with his wife, Tolstoy had stormed from his Yasnaya Polyana home, entrained for Moscow to begin life anew at 82; on the train he was seized with chills and fever, got off at Astapovo, succumbed to pneumonia a week later...
Last week, in his County Dublin home at Booterstown, Irish Tenor John McCormack died, at 61, of bronchial pneumonia...
...Unofficial scientists guessed at: 1) continued radioactivity in the bombed area, 2) mysterious rays of concentrated neutrons, 3) "concussion pneumonia...
Constantly hungry on a daily ration (for the whole group) of one peck of meal from the ship's stores, always cold from exposure, many of them developed scurvy and pneumonia. The Pilgrims, claims Author Willison, blandly ignored the ship's doctor, Giles Heale. For medical advice they depended solely on one of their own members, Deacon Samuel Fuller. Result: almost every day somebody died. When at last the Mayflower sailed back to England, the harvest came in, and a gift of corn from Squanto increased the group ration by another peck of fresh meal. But the seven...