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With a perfectly straight face, business analysts Standard & Poor's Corp. recently predicted: "If small business should encounter inventory losses [after war's end], the moral hazard would increase sharply. Hence, fire underwritings . . . will probably result in a further loss this year...
High-octane gasoline is a mixed blessing. Without it modern aviation would be impossible, but as every airman knows, its touchy inflammability makes it more dangerous than dynamite. Last week the Standard Oil Development Co. demonstrated a new high-octane fuel which it hopes will greatly reduce the fire hazard. They tested it by dropping a flaming match into the stuff. The match went...
Occupational Hazard. In Seattle, Remi C. Delay, fed up with the kidding he got in line of duty as a bus driver, petitioned to change his name to DeLoy...
...soldier in the field would hazard one answer: it takes too long for criticisms of weapons to get up through the chain of commands, where criticisms are often taken skeptically, checked in a time-wasting, cumbersome procedure...
...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...