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...neared completion, American Airlines announced that it would move from Dallas' Love Field to Fort Worth's splendid terminal. Other airlines debated whether to follow suit. Though there was no real reason why Dallas air passengers could not use the new, safer Fort Worth facilities, few permitted themselves even a second of such treasonable thought. Dallas, its citizenry decided, must have a big airport too. The solution seemed simple: all they had to do was rip down houses in which hundreds of families live at present, subject other residential areas to the constant snarling of aircraft, and spend...
...General Motors' $2,500, 87-h.p. diesel engine, the smallest G.M. has ever made and suitable for a 26-ft. boat. G.M. claims it is safer and more economical than standard 100 h.p. ($600) gas engines, plans to turn out 5,000 of them this year...
...aside as the factions closed, fists waving, drinking glasses hurtling, chair legs thudding on skulls. From his seventh-row plush seat, Red Chief Togliatti, carefully guarded by a Red deputy, watched with a connoisseur's interest. Premier Alcide de Gasperi, 71, in the front benches, prudently retired to safer ground...
Schick announced the test in 1913 Within ten years, a new and far safer immunizing substance (toxoid) took most of the risk out of preventive measures. Nowadays, throughout most of the U.S. and in many another country, babies get their first protective shot by the time they are a year old. Years after the first shot, the Schick test (two injections, one in each arm) shows whether the immunity has lasted or needs renewing. And it will show at any time whether a preventive shot has "taken...
...surprise of hardly anyone, Internal Revenue Commissioner John Bettes Dunlap last week sprinted out of Washington and holed up in a safer spot. He resigned his $15,000-a-year job as top tax collector, and took an appointment from Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder as the new $13,500-a-year district commissioner of internal revenue for Texas and Oklahoma, with headquarters in Dallas. Reason: the Washington job is subject to political appointment, the Dallas job (one of 17 created by this year's reorganization of the Bureau of Internal Revenue) is a lifetime assignment protected...