Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officers pursued a putrid smell. They arrived at a storehouse, staggered back as the full power of 10,000 ripening Camembert cheeses oozed out the opened door. The officers commandeered a quantity of precious gasoline, saturated the building and its contents, stood back in satisfaction as one more apparent hazard to the health of troops went up in smoke. The frantic, howling owner did not speak enough English to make them understand that his stinking hoard really smelled just right...
...flow around the curved surfaces of the plane's wings and propeller. The wider the curve, the faster the air travels. This accelerated air, moving faster than the plane, may reach supersonic speeds and create local shock waves, known to airmen as "compressibility burble." Designers have reduced this hazard by giving wings and propellers thinner leading edges; these are now shaped more like a knife than a teardrop. But the biggest advance is the jet-propelled plane. The part of a plane that first feels supersonic effects is its whirling propeller, whose tips reach a very high speed...
...pencils, 17 combs, 50 ft. of rope, a quart of sauerkraut, 5 Ib. of sugar, 3 Ib. of wieners, a gross of used toothpicks, four flashlights, a hammer, six knives, a grindstone, a tube of shaving cream and four putty knives. He was charged with "maintaining a fire hazard." Only Yesterday. In Toledo, Ore., a merchant discovered that he had accepted a bad check drawn on the Lincoln County Bank, which used to be right across the street until it closed ten years ago. For Luck. In San Francisco, Tharn-midsbe L. Praghustspondgifeem, who was known as Edward L. Hayes...
...efforts to get San Francisco voters to approve the city's purchase of the ancient Market Street Railway, which for long years has run outmoded cars up & down Market Street, competing against municipally owned cars. The four sets of tracks gave San Francisco a famed traffic hazard. But four times the voters had turned down the purchase proposal...
...rang up the net incomes of 215 companies, found they were up a bare 2%. With U.S. production up a solid 17% during the year, this was little enough to crow about - with renegotiation still to come. But renegotiation, trimming off the lard, may not be such a hazard now: during the year, many a corporation sensibly slashed its prices to Uncle Sam. And as an additional bulwark, many companies built up special renegotiation reserves to take care of refunds...