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Show For a small premium insurance companies will agree to pay a man on a railroad train $15,000 f he loses his life. One hundred dollars is the price of a ride in an aeroplane at the Harvard aviation meet at Atlantic City. For thia amount of money the passenger is carried twice around the field ami is in the air about five minutes hut no insurance company will undertake to pay him if he gets killed. From which we take it that railroad riding is about fifteen thousand times safer, in the estimation esti-mation of the insurance companies, than aeroplane riding. As railroads are not perfect yet. as people peo-ple sometimes get killed on them, we can get a little idea of how much the aeroplane has got to be improved before it will be considered even comparatively com-paratively safe. |