Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high rates are not easily explained. All that health officials can point to are the increased deaths from pneumonia and meningococcus meningitis (TIME, March 22). A recent Public Health Service survey of absenteeism among industrial workers shows that, in the final quarter of 1942, respiratory diseases were sharply on the rise among the 250,000 men studied. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s Statistical Bulletin reports a 5.5% increase in deaths among industrial policyholders and adds some clues on 1943 trends...
...Army doctors discovered the organism of pneumonia (George Miller Sternberg, almost simultaneously with Pasteur in 1881), of tooth decay (Puerto Rican Major Fernando Emilio Rodriguez, 1921), trench fever, three types of dysentery...
Died. Major General Robert Olds, 46, former Commander of the U.S. Army's Second Air Force; of complications following pneumonia; in Tucson. From a World War I private, he rose to chief of inspection section of the G.H.Q. Air Force (1935-37), was made a major general after his successes as highballing first boss of World War II's Ferrying Command. His ashes were dead-marched into a Flying Fortress at Tucson, scattered by air comrades over the mountainous quarter of the area he commanded...
...Major General Robert Olds, seriously ill of pneumonia in Tucson, the Army last week gave the Distinguished Service Medal, its highest award this side of battle...
Died. Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff, 69, world-famed pianist and one of the half-dozen greatest composers of his generation; of pneumonia, pleurisy and complications; at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. A musician of aristocratic, old-world habits and conservative tastes, he wrote three operas, three symphonies, four piano concertos, countless oft-performed songs and piano pieces, was probably best known for his ubiquitous Prelude in C Sharp Minor (the "Flatbush" Prelude). Son of a captain in the Russian Imperial Guards, gaunt, towering Sergei Rachmaninoff was a close friend and protégé of the late great Peter Ilich...