Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insurance. Big difficulty of actuaries was to obtain a broad enough base for computing risks because although airlines roll up countless millions of ''passenger miles" only about 350,000 individuals actually fly each year and of these barely 5% take extra air insurance at present rates. Nevertheless, U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce charts show that while eight years ago airplanes flew 125,000 miles, today they fly 1,050,000 between accidents and 7,330,000 miles between fatal accidents. That insurance companies can now bet $5,000 to two bits against a passenger being killed...
...questions of the day. But already the University Museum of Comparative Zoology has scooped all other expeditions by stepping into the breach with a fish collecting trip to Cuba this winter which was announced yesterday. Although failing to realize the true significance of the shark question, the Museum has nevertheless made a great stride in the right direction. Concentrating on small fry is their only mistake; it is the mob leaders, the tops of the racket, who must be eradicated...
...report recommends the economic superiority of helium-filled dirigibles carrying 200 passengers, estimates their cost at $4,000,000 each. Of their safety it says, "While their size makes them vulnerable in high winds when making ground contacts (which are no hardship whatever to airplanes-rather, an advantage), nevertheless, the impossibility of slowing an airplane down brings with it a certain element of risk not present in the dirigible...
...sentimental pioneer legends. But it presented a far kindlier version of life on the sod-house frontier than does Slo-gum House, which shows Gulla's successful villainy still ripening in her rotten old age. Overburdened with violence to a point that occasionally touches burlesque, Slogum House is nevertheless written with power, gives a clearer picture of the wild environment than of the people who fought to make it better or the ones, like Gulla, who tried to make it worse...
...these days when screen action is swift and vivid and of absorbing interest, the growing luridness of "Ebb Tide" is not a pleasant change in cinematic diet but in spite of its spasmodic gait it does create tension in its closing minutes. Nevertheless one still goes home distracted by unanswered situations and incidental superfluities in the script. In short, "Ebb Tide" is not recommended...