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...Lamartine had kicked up a rumpus: the Review mailbag began to swell. A doctor wrote in to complain that the use of hatpins "is an actual and potential hazard to the health of our female population" because scalp abrasions invite invasion by the "bacillus Welchii." A poesy-minded lady in Los Angeles wrote...
...childhood and U.S. education were last week facing a growing wartime problem: the flight of high-school children to the pied piping of wartime jobs. A New York State educators' committee called this "a national hazard" which would create a great postwar "problem of educational rehabilitation." The Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor has been getting reports from here & there. Baltimore samples of what is typical of many war-industry centers...
...there is room aplenty for all kinds of live artillery practice. Gas (tear) is a maneuver hazard. Live bombs crunch. Every soldier learns to crawl under live machinegun fire 40 inches off the ground...
...Navy has scraped a lot of paint off parts of ships to reduce the fire hazard. What to put in its place? Last week it became known that the Navy has an answer: a fireproof ceramic (glazed) coating that seems to have many advantages...
...nature of invasion-"Tunisia gave us an invaluable pattern for the future. But the tasks will be increasingly difficult, usually with the great hazard of an over-water approach and a heavy battle to be maintained beyond the beaches. The way will be far from easy, the losses heavy but the victory certain...