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...runs got tougher, they began to take their toll. When one of his volunteers showed signs of shock after a 35-g deceleration, Stapp lost no time repeating the run himself. His vision blurred to a smoky green fog, and he wound up with a body full of bruises where he had slammed against his harness. His right hand slipped from its grip on the seat's arm rest and his wrist broke as it hit against the hand grip. But he had discovered what he set out to find: the previous rider had failed to keep his head...
...principal economic argument against flood insurance is the nature of the risk. The most destructive (average yearly toll: some $420 million) and widespread calamities in the U.S., floods tend to haunt the same areas, e.g.. the Missouri and the Mississippi river basins, which had floods costing more than $1.5 billion from 1936 through 1951. Said one insurance executive: "Potentially, every insurance company could be bankrupted by one casualty...
...past 15 years the paper has not supported a single Democrat for state or federal office, and Nebraskans have elected only two. The paper packs an even greater non-political punch. After a World-Herald crusade for traffic safety in 1953, the state's death toll dropped 30% in four months, while surrounding states' tolls continued to rise. Even the paper's enemies (and it has quite a few) know it is a power to be reckoned with. Says one state Democrat grudgingly: "It does cover everything...
...Union's P.W.s died in Confederate captivity, including 26% of the 49,485 prisoners at Andersonville, Ga. During World War I, 4,120 U.S. soldiers were captured, but only 147 died in the German Kaiser's prison camps. During World War II, the toll was 14,090 out of 129,701 U.S. prisoners -a cruel 10.9%; 10,031 out of 26,943 U.S. Army and Air Force prisoners died in the hands of the Japanese-37%-while only 1,238 out of 96,321 Army and Air Force prisoners died in the European and Mediterranean theaters...
This week, as the Northeast mopped up, the 1955 flood went down in Weather Bureau records as one of the most disastrous in U.S. history. The toll of dead and missing passed 250 and was still rising (the worst on record: the Johnstown Flood of 1889, when more than 2,000 perished), and last week's damage was estimated at well over $1.5 billion...