Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ocean-flying airmen, one mental hazard is the fear of being trapped in a submerged plane after a crash landing at sea-as many an airman has been trapped and drowned. Last week the Army's Air Technical Service Command announced an ingenious device to help trapped flyers: an oxygen mask for breathing under water while they fight clear of the plane...
Head of the school is able Dr. Halford L. Hoskins. onetime dean (1933-44) of Tufts College's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Faculty members include such practicing experts as John Newbold Hazard. FEA authority on Russia, John S. Dickey, director of the State Department's Office of Public Affairs, Herbert Feis, economic consultant to the War Department. They do most of their teaching in seminars. Maximum enrollment has been tentatively set at 130. Students may attend from a few months to two years. At present they range in age from 20 to 46 (average...
...next alert you get is likely to be the McCoy. ... It might knock out a high building or two. It might create a fire hazard. It would certainly cause casualties ... It could not seriously affect the progress of the war. But think what it would mean to Dr. Goebbels...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had planned to spend Christmas at home with their families. Instead, they spent it in Greece trying to end a civil war. The long winter flight from London to Athens held hazards to life & limb. But it was the greater hazard to Britain's power & prestige that spurred Churchill to fly impetuously to Greece...
...weather hazard was beaten by establishing a huge network with alternate fields for emergencies. Weather stations were set up-53 of them-and radio communications were installed to get their observations to the forecasters. The network is operated by officers who learned their job in the operations end of the U.S. airlines. The stations are manned by thousands of G.I.s...