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...would be helpful if you would explain to the large number of the nation's 80 million life insurance policyholders who read TIME that we did it for them. Insurance generally is written and priced to protect the ordinary person from the usual hazards. If we were suddenly to accept a large number of new policyholders with a special potential hazard, it might be at some jeopardy to the protection of the 80 million. Our view is that all the people . . . should underwrite the war hazard, just as all the people pay the other costs...
...Manhattan, a worried Fire Department official complained that TV rooftop antennas are a hazard to firefighters. Firemen not only trip over the wires, they also have their hats knocked off by the dipoles, thus "leaving them in danger from falling debris if they have to work bareheaded...
Headquarters. In Lisbon, N.Y., state inspectors ordered the village's fire-fighting equipment moved into a garage, after a checkup proved that the firehouse was a fire hazard...
...page illustrated pamphlet, Pereira Ignacio was told that Bums (bottles so disreputable that they must be discarded), Crocks (bottles chipped on the bottom) and Scuffles (bottles chipped around the trademark) are a hazard to the business and that there are ways of avoiding that hazard through careful tests, proper storage, the use of scuffing inhibitor compounds, etc. Meanwhile, the bottler's advertising department (whose expenses the Coke company shares on a decreasing scale for the first five years) was also getting instruction. Advertising must never be "competitive, offensive, tricky, brash." To be on the safe side, Coke...
Occupational Hazard. In Melbourne, Australia, the Underwriters Council approved full benefits under the Workers Compensation Act for anyone who dislocated his jaw while yawning at work...