Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...floor will be of noise-absorbing material. To eliminate the communication of vibration, all machinery will be insulated where it touches floor or wall. Where irritating noises cannot be controlled by insulation, they will be neutralized by other noises (TIME, Dec. 15). Workmen will hear only enough sound to prevent them from being distracted by complete silence. They will be illuminated by constant artificial daylight containing a small percent of healthy ultraviolet, will breathe air which has been washed, heated, humidified. The ten million cubic feet of air will be changed every ten minutes. Contaminating gases and machine dirt...
...Manhattan, Earl Freedman Lathrop was given a life sentence, convicted for the fourth time of forging checks. He was the inventor of a machine to prevent checks being raised...
...amateurish speculations with it; beautiful Mrs. Miller hooted with laughter at the suggestion that she divorce her husband and marry Dan; a heinous appropriation bill reared its ugly head and Daniel smacked it, though in vain. The last you see of him he is flying furiously westward to prevent Irma Schmultz from sailing to the Philippines. As you close the book you are sure that he will get her, sure that he will be almost unanimously reelected. The Author. Janet Fairbank's father (Benjamin Ayer) was a big man in Chicago's yesterday; her sister is Novelist Margaret...
...while the late conference of the preceding night had failed to prevent the closing, it had at least given bankers a definite plan of action. To all European. houses and newspapers assurance had been sent that Bank of United States, despite its imposing name, was only a small State bank, had no connection with the U. S. Government. And with unprecedented speed, members of New York Clearing House announced they would lend 50% of Bank of United States' deposits as soon as balances could be checked. Proudly signing the Clearing House statement were two banks which had contemplated entering...
Significance. Many a banker argued late and loudly over the question of whether the big organizations ought to have prevented the failure of Bank of United States, cost what it might. One side said it would have been worth $50,000,000 to prevent fear from spreading through the ranks of the financially ignorant. The other side said that in helping the weak the strong impair their own strength, and hence the fundamental strength of the country. Agreed: It depends upon the particular case...