Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From two dangers besetting C. I. O., the A. F. of L. is safe: the danger of an untrained army's disintegration and the danger of political defeat that might be brought on by following a too adventurous leader. Not even in numbers has the A F. of L. yet become the lesser half of the House of Labor. The C. I. O. vaingloriously claims 3,700,000 members, many of whom, however, are only members insofar as they have signed an application blank. The A. F. of L. after losing 1,000,000 members...
...Cold weather will lessen the cholera danger and do more good than all the doctors in China!" was the hope all Shanghai voiced. Correspondents were startled to see internes working tirelessly over plague victims who to a layman's eye showed no sign of life whatever, although many thus stricken have been saved. Marveled a newsman who had been out on an ambulance: "They all looked dead...
...Highway 71 begins in Kansas City, ends at Baton Rouge, La. It passes through northwest Arkansas en route and serves the town of Rogers (pop. 3,500). From a drugstore window there, 35-year-old Clerk Cloe Mitchell often ruminated on the volume, speed and danger of passing traffic. Not long ago Cloe Mitchell decided to do something about...
...screen on which the direct X-ray picture is thrown and there photographed as it changes by a cine- camera. Since motion picture film must pause 16 times each second to make its record, Dr. Reynolds likewise interrupts his X-ray beam 16 times a second. This reduces the danger in X-ray work of burning a patient or sterilizing him, and therefore enables Dr. Reynolds to make exposures of as long as 20 seconds. To heart specialists the new method promises a new means of checking their findings by ordinary methods (stethoscopic, percussion, cardiograph...
...northwest side a dangerous fire hazard has been removed by the building of a fire escape. Formerly both stairways down were in the main part of the building, and people on the top of the retunda were in danger of being out off in case a fire had gotten a good start in the kitchen. Because of the fire escape it has been possible to take out the rear stairway, and in its place steel lockers have been placed for the inmates...