Safety Engineering, Volume 34A. H. Best. Company, 1917 - Accidents |
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Page 67 - It is evident to every thinking man that our industries, on the farms, in the shipyards, in the mines, in the factories, must be made more prolific and more efficient than ever, and tHat they must be more economically managed and better adapted to the particular requirements of our task than they have been...
Page 67 - ... what I want to say is that the men and the women who devote their thought and their energy to these things will be serving the country and conducting the fight for peace and freedom just as truly and just as effectively as the men on the battlefield or in the trenches.
Page 220 - Time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest Prodigality; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough...
Page 43 - I think it would be most unfortunate for any of the states to relax laws by which safeguards have been thrown about labor. I feel that there is no necessity for such action and that it would lead to a slackening of the energy of the nation rather than to an increase of it, besides being very unfair to the laboring people themselves.
Page 307 - the bit left over'; the slice eaten absent-mindedly when really I wasn't needed; I am the waste crust. "If you collected me and my companions for a whole week you would find that we amounted to 9,380 tons of good bread — WASTED!
Page 290 - Preventable fire is more than a private misfortune. It is a public dereliction. At a time like this, of emergency and manifest necessity for the conservation of national resources, it is more than ever a matter of deep and pressing consequence that every means should .be taken to prevent this evil.
Page 187 - Egypt, the walls and hanging gardens of Babylon, the temple of Diana at Ephesus, the statue of...
Page 135 - December 4-7, 1917. The papers and conferences will deal largely with the health problems created by the great war — the food supply, communicable diseases among soldiers, war and venereal disease, war and the health of the civil population, etc. President Wilson has said: "It is not an army we must shape and train for war; it is a nation.
Page 175 - Metallica, 1556 shaft is very deep and no tunnel reaches to it, or no drift from another shaft connects with it, or when a tunnel is of great length and no shaft reaches to it, then the air does not replenish itself. In such a case it...
Page 38 - ... use to the nation. The unanimous desire to help the government in the prosecution of this war resulted in a resolution instructing the executive committee to cooperate with the government in procuring the services of engineers, also the appointment of a committee of three consisting of Messrs. HW Buck, AM Greene, Jr., and Edmund B. Kirby, to consider the best means of utilizing the inventive ability of members of the founders societies.