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Prevention: Avoidance of "profound emotional stress produced principally by accident hazards and social and economic insecurity." Emotional stress "can be off set by suitable compensation, either ego-stimulating or monetary. Since modern commercial aviation lacks any great amount of ego-stimulation, it remains to establish some standard to determine at approximately what point [monetary] compensation overcomes the effect of the accident hazard...
Last week we mentioned the earthquake menace to the University Museum, 14 now appears that this is but one of the worries of the occupants of the building. There is also the fire hazard, which is by no means slight in a building whose interior in constructed primarily of wood...
...kind in the General Electric setup, insulated wire is proofed against water and fire by impregnation in a synthetic wax prepared from chlorine and naphthalene. People who work with such waxy compounds run the risk of getting their pores plugged, breaking out with pimples. To safeguard against that industrial hazard in its York factory, General Electric compelled every workman to take a shower bath before leaving the factory, supplied freshly laundered overalls twice a week, kept a physician in constant attendance...
...intervening 60 days to make Mr. Eccles change his tune was not explained. But plausible reasons included a sizeable expansion in brokers' loans; a strong resurgence of inflation fever; and, since the present Reserve Board retires in a body this week, an unwillingness to leave a serious fire hazard to a new Board, the majority of whose members may need time to master their fire-fighting equipment...
...alternative is not, as political rascals would have us believe, between government paternalism and the present rotten and hap-hazard situation, but between government paternalism and an improvement along liberal, but completely capitalistic lines, an education of all the people according to the good, old-fashioned, bourgeois ideals of individual responsibility, thrift, the home, and suspicion of politics and politicians...