Word: safest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later the heads of eleven major U.S. airlines were feted in Chicago at a luncheon (scheduled long before the crash) to honor commercial aviation's record for safety. Their statistics proved that IQ49, even including the Dallas crash, could still be one of the scheduled airlines' safest years, with 1.2 deaths per 100 million passenger miles. Every speaker at the luncheon sidestepped the ugly word "crash" until hard-bitten Eddie Rickenbacker, president of Eastern Air Lines, got up, threw away his prepared text and adlibbed: "Crashes are the price you pay for motion...
Typical machines in shoe stores, Dr. Williams found, deliver from five to 58 times the maximum dose considered safe by the American Standards Association and the New York City Health Department. The safe dose is two roentgens for each exposure. The safest machine examined by Williams delivered two roentgens in four seconds; the most dangerous delivered the dose in one-third of a second. Exposures range from five to 45 seconds; the one most often used is 20 seconds...
...still tacks up syphilis quarantine signs himself, with the butt of a pistol, on any tavern which refuses to send its bar girls in for tests. Pointing to Chicago's syphilis rate, which has dropped 45% against a national drop of 37%, Bundesen boldly boasts: "Chicago is the safest place in the world today to have intercourse." But, he adds: "We must stay in the ring and slug it out. There is no rest between rounds when the enemy is syphilis...
...short, when FTC last year was plumping for f.o.b. pricing, it was not trying to lay down a law; it was merely pointing out the safest way to avoid suspicion. But, warned FTC: "No pricing formula ... is automatically free from or . . . subject to a charge of conspiracy...
...Bowl, Conductor Eugene Ormandy roamed over it with an orchestra of 120, including an organ, two harps and a mandolin; two choruses of 350 each; a boy's choir of 100; seven vocal soloists and a separate band of eight trumpets and four trombones. Consensus: outdoors was the safest place to hear...