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...were still mounting. There were 84 dead so far, 400 injured in the nation's worst railroad wreck since 115 were killed at Nashville in 1918. For New York commuters, it was the third big wreck in twelve months-32 were killed in a Long Island Rail Road smashup at Rockville Centre last February, 79 in another L.I.R.R. wreck at Richmond Hill.* For the Pennsylvania, it was the second major crash in five months; in September, the Spirit of St. Louis rammed into a stalled troop train near Coshocton, Ohio and killed 33 soldiers...
Died. William Jennings Miller, 51, wheel-chaired Republican Congressman from Connecticut (1939-41, 43-45, 47-49), who lost both legs after a World War I airplane smashup,† devoted much of his career to veterans' benefits; after long illness; in Wethersfield, Conn...
...Godfearing . . . gentlemen [who] prefer to drink in their own homes with their families about them and in the presence of their children. Would the drys want all advertisers to urge the misuse or abuse of products? In that case, automobile manufacturers should advertise a brand-new car in a smashup wrapped around a tree; sun lamp producers should advertise a blistered well-done purchaser of the lamp; sugar refiners could illustrate how to get diabetes in ten easy lessons, and commercial airlines might use singing commercials [ike this...
Misery Loves Company. In Casper, Wyo., Hilbert LeRoy McCready made his getaway from a traffic smashup, but was nabbed when two convicts, watching from jail, reported his license number...
...heads of iceberg lettuce (he will plant his broccoli this week), watched the slowly circling sprays of water soak the light brown soil. He was sorry, he said, that other New England farmers were having it so bad, but he was certainly grateful for that smashup on the race track...