Word: foolproofing
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...wing attached to the fire station is the new fire alarm headquarters for the city of Cambridge and there the Fire Department jealously guards the delicate signal system. No pains have been spared to make the alarm headquarters foolproof and fire-proof. To safeguard the equipment against fire, each window is equipped with jets for a "water curtain" and also a steel curtain which falls automatically if a fire breaks out nearby. Both of these protections work on the principle of the automatic sprinkler system--that is, the metal with which the ends of the jets are covered melts...
...after Britain's Companies Act. Five years in jail and a $5,000 fine awaited the crooked U. S. stock promoter or corporation official who today must be caught by the roundabout charge of "using the mails to defraud." The proposed legislation did not make all stock issues foolproof but it did attempt to divide investment sheep from speculative goats. When House hearings started on the measure during the week, Representatives were shocked to learn from a Department of Commerce expert that of the $50,000,000,000 worth of securities sold in the U. S. in the last...
...photographer. And should be. The old World once issued handy cameras to all its newshawks (who soon lost them). So did the Journal. The practice is now coming back on the Gannett chain papers (notably in Albany and Elmira, N. Y.). whose editors are still searching for an "ideal foolproof camera...
...Green Pastures" to the moral influence, the human appeal, and the high quality of the directing and acting. "I am no playwright," Richard Harrison concluded, "but I can tell a good play, when I see it, and I have seen many plays ruined by inadequate acting. No play is foolproof all the way through, or actor proof...
...approached in form the plane which he foresees, a plane which will "stand on the ground horizontally instead of at a slant ... be reminiscent of a motor car or bus . . . have upholstery or trim so that one repeats some previous feeling of transportation security. . . ." If it is also foolproof, U. S. wives will say to U. S. husbands : "You can fly in that and I will go with you." And U. S. husbands will buy airplanes...