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...building] has a protection factor of four or better, which means the shelter is 100 to 149 times safer than the outside, and can hold 40 people, it is [considered] a fallout shelter," explained Tonis...
Both teams appeared especially apprehensive at the opening of the final period. The first line felt safer with the puck than without, and often hesitated to shoot, and more often to pass...
...favorite measurement of the commercial airlines-deaths per passenger mile-air travel remains much safer than automobile travel. But William A. Patterson, the outspoken president of United Air Lines, has much that is discomforting to say about air safety. He argues that airlines may be overcrowding planes in their scramble for revenues, resulting in chaos in the rush for emergency exits when accidents do occur. Others point out that such overloading encourages dangerously high take-off and landing speeds...
...partly because mortgage money is easier. The recent rise in interest rates on savings deposits has created a healthy surplus of. lendable funds in banks and savings-and-loan associations, and last summer's stock market drop made insurance companies and pension funds more interested in investing in safer mortgages. Mortgage-interest rates run as low as 5% in Chicago and 5½% in the fast-building West...
...Argentines this is a prize indeed. Housing in Argentina is so short that unpretentious apartments rent for $300 a month, after "key money" of at least $1,000. And between galloping inflation and the fact that moneyed Argentines prefer to invest overseas in safer climes, mortgage credit is scarce and costly. Loan sharks charge up to 45% interest, and most banks have a five-year waiting list of would-be borrowers of mortgage money...