Word: hazarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aviation companies, few laymen can get exact information about the risks involved. Last week the risks were discussed in an article entitled "Flying Is Still Dangerous" in The American Mercury by Kenneth Brown Collings, Wartime Navy flyer, onetime mail pilot, flight instructor and airport manager, author of Flight Hazard. Some of Author Collings' statements: Average age of airline pilots is 32. Average men of 32 engaged in normal ground occupations die at the rate of less than 3 per 1,000 per year. Airline pilots die at the rate of 25 per 1,000. But-the average pilot flies...
...scheduled U. S. air transport lines the extra hazard per hour of passenger flight is approximately 66 times that of normal ground occupations. Scheduled air transport in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands approaches that of the U. S. in safety. In Great Britain it is "possibly twice as hazardous"; in France and Mexico, at least five times as hazardous...
...Harvard, Yale and Princeton men, Browning, King & Co. means college clothes. To railroad conductors, bell hops and steamship officers, Browning, King means uniforms. The 112-year-old clothing firm virtually outfitted the gold rush of '49. John Hazard Browning, descendant of a Rhode Island settler who bought a "dwelling house and two lots of acres . . . for ?3 in wampum" had been in the clothing business 27 years when news of gold at Suiter's Mill burst upon New York. He packed clipper ships with pants and coats as fast as they could be sewed together, sent them around...
...John Hazard Browning's sons were not sorry when the Civil War came. They wangled a huge contract for soldiers' uniforms out of the Federal Government. After Appomattox they might have gone bankrupt had not a man named Henry W. King joined the firm. War had ruined their southern business, so Henry W. King opened a store in Chicago. It made so much money that the Brownings were glad to add his name to their corporate title, open other stores in the West. Browning, King had a chain of haberdasheries while the late James Butler, founder...
...Manhattan. Born Alice Claypoole Gwynne, she was married in 1867 to the late Cornelius Vanderbilt (died 1899), grandson of the fortune-founding Commodore. Her only social battle (which she eventually won) was with her sister-in-law, the late Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt (later Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont) for the supremacy of the Vanderbilt clan. In Newport Mrs. Vanderbilt built "The Breakers," the resort's No. 1 mansion; in Manhattan, with permission of the French Government a copy of the Chateau de Blois, razed from its Fifth Avenue & 57th Street corner seven years ago. Her calling cards read...