Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the U.S. sneezes, according to an old economic adage, the world catches pneumonia. But that was in the days when the U.S. economy was operating on such a narrow margin that even a slight downward dip would dry up imports and thus help depress business everywhere. In 1937-38, for example, industrial production dropped 21% and imports dropped 36%. But in 1954-to the delight of the free world and the consternation of Communists everywhere-the U.S. in a recession still proved to be so strong that its case of sniffles hardly affected world trade...
...Dial brothers got their slaves from jails. They paid the Negroes' fines, drove them home to work on the Dial farms near Boyd, Ala., and kept them there by force. Fred Dial beat one with a lariat, and soon afterward the man died of pneumonia. When the slave's mother got possession of his body, she saw the cuts and bruises on it and asked her white employer for help. He told authorities, and the FBI moved...
Died. Wilhelm Furtwangler, 68, famed conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Or chestra, one of Europe's leading interpreters of Beethoven, Schubert and Wagner, often in hot water because of his equivocal attitude toward the Nazis; of pneumonia; in Baden-Baden, Germany...
...Weiss, the inside left and right respectively. Toro, although hampered by a leg injury, is still the key play-maker on the team. Weiss with three goals, is tied with center forward Grey Hodnett in scoring. Hank Holmes and Bill Linglebach has been out for two weeks with virus pneumonia and Bill Cowperthwaite will probably spell...
Died. George W. Mason, 63, president and board chairman of American Motors (Nash, Hudson): of acute pancreatitis and pneumonia; in Detroit. Tireless Carmaker Mason became president of the Kelvinator Corp. when he was 38, engineered the 1936 merger with Nash and consolidation with Hudson early this year (TIME, Jan. 25). At the time of his death, he was dickering with Studebaker-Packard for another merger that would have resulted in the world's second largest auto firm (behind General Motors...