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...Traffic Hazard. In Richmond, Calif., when Autoist Charles Foley made a slow left turn, meticulously hand-signaling out the window, he lost his wrist watch to a light-fingered pedestrian...
...most readers of U.S. history, such salty captains as John Paul Jones, Edward Preble, Oliver Hazard Perry and his brother Matthew Calbraith Perry are "commodores," though the term in their times was a courtesy title bestowed on commanders of squadrons. (Americans once thought "admiral" smacked of aristocracy.) Though George Dewey later became an admiral, at Manila Bay he was a commodore. Last fortnight, seafaring Franklin Roosevelt signed a bill restoring the rank of commodore to official status, which it occupied only between...
President Roosevelt last week awarded World War II's 43rd Congressional Medal of Honor. The citation: "for conspicuous leadership" and "personal valor and intrepidity at an extreme hazard to life." The recipient: Brigadier General Kenneth N. Walker, Air Forces. But General Walker was not at the White House to receive the medal. He had been missing in action in the Southwest Pacific since January...
Ducks, geese, gulls, eagles, buzzards and other birds are a hazard to aviation. A bird once smashed through a plane windshield, burst the metal bulkhead behind the pilot, hurtled the length of the cabin, broke into the baggage compartment in the tail. A 15-lb. turkey easily breaks conventional safety glass even at speeds under 100 m.p.h. Westinghouse shoots its chickens and turkeys at velocities up to 400 m.p.h. Results of the test: recommendations for thicker windshields than the usual safety glass. One type of panel developed has tempered glass on the outside, an air space, then two panes...
...first time I moved with a well-defined sense of hazard. The others, who knew more, had probably felt it all along. . . . You were on the receiving end, and you could not see the thing about to strike you. A few feet farther along I got the shock for which I thought I had braced myself. . . . Just beyond the turn lay a dead Marine. . . . Colonel Frisbie . . . was right...