Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carbon disulfide poisoning ever printed in the U. S. Throughout the country, they said, there are 19 rayon companies which use carbon disulfide. Some of them, like Du Pont at Wilmington, Del., take special pains to guard their employes from poisonous C52 fumes. American Viscose Co. cut down the hazard with a new ventilating system designed by Philip Drinker of Harvard. But hundreds of workers throughout the U. S. have been permanently disabled...
...wore civilian clothes to emphasize that it was an unofficial visit) was followed by a dinner given by the U. S. Ambassador to Rome. He had lunched on the second day with the French and British Ambassadors and had tea with the one from Germany. And then the first hazard in Sumner Welles's mission to Europe had been negotiated. Some kind of diplomatic history had been made: for the first time in two years pro-U. S. headlines appeared in the controlled Italian press, crowding in among headlines announcing that the Axis was up again, that an Italian...
High & dry on three floors of Manhattan's Grand Central Palace were 115 motorboats, 35 sailboats, skiffs, prize-winning racers, gadgets, motors, motor fuels. Outstanding gadget: The Hazard Tension Meter, a mandolin-style sound box tunable to a pitch pipe, to attach to yacht rigging for determining desired tautness. Based on a complicated device used for years on America's Cup Defenders, the popular Hazard comes to merer skippers at $25. Outstanding motor yacht: a 57-foot, superluxurious, poly-gadgeted Elco cruiser with clipper bow, flying bridge, streamlined superstructure, berthing a party of six, crew of two. Price...