A statistic of last week:
"One passenger could travel 32,000 times around the earth, 25,000 mi. each circuit, without accidental death, traveling continuously at the rate of 50 mi. an hour for more than 183 years."
Enunciator of this reassuring sentence was President Arthur Williams of the American Museum of Safety. His authority was an Interstate Commerce Commission report that 118 of the 157 Class I railroads of the U. S. last year carried 148,379,000 passengers more than eight billion passenger miles without a single passenger fatality. Another set of I. C. C....
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