Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hands with their girls; some carpenters sat by a small fire and listened while one played a guitar; couples out "footing" (walking) paused and leaned against a nearby wall. TIME Correspondent Donald Newton looked on from his balcony. Everybody laughed as car after car swerved just in time to avoid hitting the sandpile...
With the help of its more professional members, ICCASP has also learned to avoid some of the minor blunders of politicking. Explained a Hollywood member: "Ingrid Bergman would never be sent off to a small neighborhood meeting because it would cheapen her glamor value. Groucho Marx wouldn't attempt to talk to a ladies' society, but would leave it to Sterling Hayden or John Garfield...
...whopping $1,102,000,000 in extra taxes and penalties collected from taxpayers who had tried to short-change the Government and had got caught at it. Most of the 111,000 on the honesty rolls had merely broken out in uneasy sweat and had kicked in voluntarily to avoid trouble. The sorry fact: never before had so many taxpayers tried to cheat in such...
Even though some had wounds covered with molasses, lard, talcum powder, bluing, the surgeons did not debride, merely washed the burns with soap & water. Wearing surgical masks and using operating-room sterility procedure (to avoid infection), they wrapped the burned areas in gauze bandages, with or without a mild ointment (Dr. Elman: "None is really required"). They left on the original dressing as long as possible, usually ten to 14 days. After bandaging, patients able to stand were urged to get up and walk around. The only drug: anti-infection sulfathiazole pills...
Dissolving the Pool. To avoid competition between Government and privately owned plants, sale of the basic plants would be postponed until sometime in 1947, after the acute rubber shortage is past. Then, so far as possible, they would be sold all at once and to competitive companies...