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...northwest side a dangerous fire hazard has been removed by the building of a fire escape. Formerly both stairways down were in the main part of the building, and people on the top of the retunda were in danger of being out off in case a fire had gotten a good start in the kitchen. Because of the fire escape it has been possible to take out the rear stairway, and in its place steel lockers have been placed for the inmates...
President Roosevelt's famed radio voice was never better than when he intoned: "1 pray God no hazard of the future may ever dissipate or destroy that common ideal [of democracy]." Because more of them understood French, the crowd had more cheers for President Lebrun: ". . . despite the distance separating the United States and France, these two democracies . . . must remain united...
...regular perusal of your letters department at length has had the curious effect of impelling me to hazard a contribution. Which is particularly extraordinary because I have no errors to call to your attention...
...with impaired capital, lending in excess of the legal limit, unwarranted concentration of loans, extension of credit to people and companies in which the bank's principal stockholders were interested. "It was also found," said FDIC, "that the management of the bank by its principal stockholders constituted a hazard to its depositors...
Last week, to Newark's fury, Mayor LaGuardia finally won a skirmish in his fight to have a home field supersede Newark Airport as Manhattan's main air terminal. Fortnight ago he personally detonated the dynamite which felled a power-house chimney which was the only approach hazard at Floyd Bennett Field. Last week this improvement finally persuaded an important airline to try Floyd Bennett; American Airlines inaugurated a "summer service" of one plane a day from Floyd Bennett to Boston. American's eight other Boston flights will still start from Newark and all will terminate there...