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Death on Labor Day. The Killer and the "Saviour"
Cort, David | September 1, 1956 issue

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The semi-official saviour of life in the United States, the National Safety Council (NSC), puts out an annual compilation of statistics called Accident Facts. The N.S.C.'s heart is obviously in the right place. Yet its handling of this massacre of innocents merely demonstrates the masterly statistical art of how to get an ugly fact lost. The National Safety Council, Chicago-headquartered, is a non-profit association supported by over a million members whose names it never releases. The National Safety Council year after year has acted out the role of that ambiguous angel hovering over all the Americans.

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NATIONAL Safety Council; SAFETY; SOCIETIES; STATISTICS; LABOR Day; UNITED States
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