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...hopes to reduce the accident rate some 20 to 25% in the next year. But FSO's Colonel Harris puts his finger on the problem: "Take a kid full of vinegar and new flying skill, put a parachute on him and strap a shiny, powerful airplane on to him, and you have one of the finest combinations for trouble in the world...
Grumbled Ohio's Senator Taft: "There is hardly a man under 45 who is able to make plans for the future." (Taft's age: 52.) Essayist E. B. White wrote in Harper's: "We are the tough old campaigners-a little puffy round the girth strap, faltering a little at the top step of the long stairway, subsisting on bicarbonate of soda and ephedrine sulphate, our pocketbooks lined with silver and our back teeth with gold, but ready to go forth again to distant peninsulas against old enemies...
...rectangular box about four feet long, worked on the principle of a medieval rack, the Pandiculator has T-shaped iron posts at each end, one fixed, the other movable on a cable pulley system. To pandiculate, all a gull had to do was lie down on the box, strap his head to the fixed post, his feet to the adjustable one; when he turned a wheel on the side, he could stretch his legs and hear the joints crack. The promotion copy claimed that this Procrustean bed would cure "every conceivable condition...
Experience under raids taught London wardens to place the strap of the helmet behind the head rather than under the chin, Mrs. DeRoth said. "That way, the blast of a bomb isn't as likely to break your neck...
...Helmet Strap Dangerous...