Word: safer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...holidays, mustered slightly frozen smiles at a ceremony in Independence, Mo., where the former President snipped a 30-ft. red ribbon to open a new section of the 20-mi. Truman Road trafficway. Later, warming up to his subject at an indoor luncheon, Truman made a plea for safer driving, said he hoped the thoroughfare "will be used for traffic instead of a new scene for slaughter...
Tire Talons. For better traction, faster starts and safer stops on icy roads, B. F. Goodrich Co. brought out a truck tire with 5,000 tiny steel claws embedded in the tread. The steel will last almost the life of the tread, says Goodrich, and will result in only negligible road damage. Price: about 10% above regular truck tires...
Soon after the Nazis came to power, Lipmann decided that Germany was no place for him; a year's research assignment in Copenhagen stretched to seven years before he sought safer asylum in the U.S. In Boston, he became Harvard's professor of biological chemistry and head of a research laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital. Krebs was summarily fired from his university post by the Nazis; fortunately he was invited to Cambridge University, where he arrived "with virtually nothing but a sigh of relief and a few books." Later he moved to Sheffield as professor of biochemistry...
...science requirements. The pre-med knows he stands less of a chance of gaining admission to medical school if he concentrates in history instead of, say, biochemistry. No matter what medical school catalogues say about taking only a minimum amount of science, present admissions policies make the undergraduate feel safer with each additional science course he takes...
...some risks, two big industry groups are ready to cut rates themselves. The plan, already approved by the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters and the Mutual Insurance Rating Bureau, which together represent more than 200 mutual and stock companies, calls for reclassification of drivers so that the safer ones will save up to 15% of their premiums. But the independents are talking of making new rate cuts of their...