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...advice to young men who are students in college is to reason out carefully the differences between the political parties and turn to that one whose principles are, in their opinion, soundest and safest for our country's welfare, not the welfare of a day or a year, but best for the future. I cannot stress too much the need for far-sightedness of political life...
Life is most precarious for women over 75. More of them get killed in accidents than any other age group of the population. After old women, old men are most in danger of accidental death. Safest of all people are young women between 25 and 34. So the Milbank Memorial Fund* formally reported last week by reprinting an article from the Journal of Preventive Medicine. Between 1921 and 1927, the period of the study, the accident death rate increased decidedly for both males and females, except in the cases of boys below 15 and girls below 5. Except...
...depreciation of the Graf Zeppelin as a ship, but it cannot be compared as a structure with the R-100 and R-101, which are the strongest in the world. One of Dr. Eckener's principal experts, after seeing the R-101, said: 'That is the safest conveyance in the world, on land...
...most timid of travelers not fear to visit any Chinese place on the itinerary of a major steamship line or world cruise. (Safest of all Chinese places are the International Quarter at Shanghai guarded by white police, Peiping where U. S. Marines are quartered, and the British part of Hongkong...
Twenty-seven designers and manufacturers signified their entry into the Guggenheim Fund world-wide safe aircraft contest after it opened two years ago. Rewards were to include $100,000 for the safest plane and $10.000 for each of five safe ones which could meet the competition's harsh but just tests. Only 15 planes appeared at Mitchel Field, L. I.. for trial. Six withdrew without trying. Others failed. Last week only two possible winners remained, the slotted-wing Curtiss (TIME, Jan. 6) and Frederick Handley Page's slotted-wing entry, an English make. The Handley Page failed...