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...King read slowly for twelve minutes. He proposed legislation "to protect the coast from erosion by the sea ... to encourage the development of the whitefish industry and to provide for safer milk ... to improve water supplies to Scotland . . ." And finally he came to the explosive paragraph: "A measure will be laid before you to bring under public ownership those companies extensively engaged in the production of iron ore, or of pig iron or steel or in the shaping of steel by a rolling process...
...wonder drugs," has its drawbacks (TIME, March 1). Among its worst effects (which may pass or may be permanent) are dizziness, deafness, and damage to the kidneys. But streptomycin has been the best drug doctors have found for treating tuberculosis. The problem has been to make it safer...
...spot in the Square, the crossing in front of the Coop, has been made progressively safer. In addition to a traffic light, a policeman with a loud speaker was added last year to the protection force. In fact the foot traveler is now ridiculously safer there then he is on the other side of the subway island, or in from of Phillips Brooks House...
Last week, after making the final payment, FDIC Chairman Maple T. Harl said: "Everybody should follow [our] example and pay off their debt now." Not everybody had the money, but, thanks to FDIC, everybody's bank accounts were safer than ever before. In 1933 alone, when 16,000 U.S. banks closed their doors in three months, U.S. depositors lost over $500 million...
...countless coastwise vessels with which the harbor swarms. (To shoot Polk first and then drag his bleeding, trussed body through Salonika's streets could hardly have escaped notice; to lure him to a caique, and then shoot him in a below-deck cabin, would have been simpler and safer...