Word: dangered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without intending to minimize the danger of tampering with the detonator unit in surplus I.F.F. radio devices [TIME, March 28], I recall vividly the explosion of such a set as I was about to lay hands upon it in the tail of an A26 bomber, late...
...hackies could drive and be protected. The union bragged on the first day that it had kept 97% of the city's 11,814 cabs in the garage. Manhattan streets were free of honking cabs and their aggressive jockeys; it was almost possible to cross a street without danger to life & limb...
...Only a Couple of Hours." All over the nation, citizens swamped newspapers with requests for the latest report on "the little girl." Midgets, jockeys and schoolboys volunteered to go down the well pipe after Kathy. David Fiscus refused. The danger of their becoming wedged or badly cut in the well casing was too great...
...even have a job." Others relieved him. The lateral tunnel began to cave in. The low talk of the workmen was carried over the loudspeaker. "It's caving to beat the band," said the voice below. Timbers went down for shoring. The men worked on, regardless of danger, or bone-deep fatigue. Little O. A. Kelly leaned back wearily when he was pulled to the surface, and swore: "I'm going in there and I'm coming out with that little girl in my arms...
...ahead to build the biggest liner ever constructed in a U.S. shipyard, a 48,000-tonner to cost $70,373,000 (TIME, Aug. 2). The Government will put up $42 million in subsidies and for "defense features" such as double engine rooms to cut down the danger from torpedoes. The U.S. Lines will put up $28 million. With its 33-knot speed, the 2,000-passenger air-conditioned ship, to be launched in 1952, will have a good chance of breaking the transatlantic speed record now held by the Queen Mary...