Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, aged 59, he wrote his last column. There was no sense of imminence in it, for there was no sense of imminence in the General that day. He was ill in bed with pneumonia, but he had been ill for several months. His column was on taxes and prices. It began: "There appears to be no end to the lack of frankness and coordination among high government officials. ..." A few hours later, Death, as it must to all men, came to Old Ironpants. A caisson carried General Johnson to Arlington cemetery, where he was buried with full military...
Died. Brigadier General Hugh Samuel ("Old Ironpants") Johnson, 59; of pneumonia; in Washington...
Still handicapped by the loss of Al Everts, who is recuperating from an attack of pneumonia, Coach Barnaby will probably play Jim Jenkins, Hugh Hyde and Captain Orme Wilson in the number one, two and three slots, respectively. After that everybody seems to have a chance, as the remaining members of the squad are virtually equal in ability...
Picture-making in Hollywood, overworked Babe Ruth fell victim to pneumonia, was hospitalized in a dangerous condition. Soon the husky Babe recovered sufficiently to sit up, receive visitors, hand down a prediction that the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates would win this year's baseball pennants...
...wondrous sulfa drugs are now being used against animal diseases. Sulfanilamide cures fowl pneumonia and several eye infections, reports D. E. Lothamer of Louisville, Ohio; and sulfaguanidine cures intestinal coccidiosis, another common henyard plague, reports Professor Jerry R. Beach of the University of California. Such drugs are now a bit too costly for widespread use by poultrymen, notes Beach, but a large demand would cut the cost to a practical level...