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Skin Cancer. Most skin cancer could be prevented. All moles, warts, cysts, burn scars, chronic infections and irritations "should be regarded with suspicion." Exposure to sunshine is a hazard only if it continues day in, day out, year after year, as in the case of farmers and sailors. Best protection against skin cancer: "soap, water and scrubbing...
...straight interest, but a "hazard charge" was the hook with which Pacific collected its usury. Supposed to protect the lender against theft or destruction of autos (which Pacific accepted as security), typical hazard charges were $30 on a $70, six-month loan (the equivalent of 133% simple interest), $88 on a $300, one-year loan (53%). Pacific would then reinsure cars with an insurance company at rates averaging one-tenth the hazard charges...
...point. Pending before the State Legislature was a bill which would empower his board to retire teachers found physically or mentally unfit. Informed that Mrs. Cunningham was a fine teacher despite her record, he retorted: "A person who cannot walk or put on her coat is a fire hazard...
Last week school officials put Mr. Marshall's assumption to a test, called a special fire drill at Teacher Cunningham's school. Her pupils were a block away before she had even reached the exit. Decision: She was undoubtedly a fire hazard...
...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...