Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western Worker, Communist daily. Five carloads of raiders drew up before the building, hurled rocks through the windows, smashed down doors, made kindling wood of every stick of furniture, tore down red banners, smashed typewriters, destroyed pamphlets and papers. A pleased and approving populace looked on from a safe distance. Five minutes after the raiders left police arrived on the scene to clean up. One Communist meeting place after another was similarly visited by the "vigilantes." In each case police arrived immediately afterward to mop up. Police arrested over 300 men and women found in Communist quarters. Of the first...
Land-planes have flown faster than 500 m.p.h.. seaplanes better than 400 m.p.h. To make flying speeds of 500 m.p.h. possible as well as safe, Secretary Ickes last week allotted $478,300 of PWA funds to construct a high-speed wind tunnel at the laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Langley Field, Va. Planned for completion within a year, the 154-ft. tunnel will be made of reinforced concrete with steel-plated walls. Through its test chamber, 8-ft, in diameter, fans driven by 8,000-h.p. motors will hurl a 500-m.p.h. hurricane. Said...
...tormenting question dinned last week in the brain of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss: "Where will my wife and the children be safe...
...will be safe where you are going," he told Frau Dollfuss, kissed her and waved goodby. Safely next morning Frau Dollfuss and kinder arrived at Riccione to be house guests in the safest little seaside villa in all Italy, that occupied by Her Excellency* Rachele Mussolini, portly and placid wife of Il Duce. Later this month, if all goes well, the two Dictators will join their wives for a week-end conference at Riccione, the third personal conference in a year of Mussolini and Dollfuss (TIME, Aug. 28; March 26). In Vienna the little Chancellor announced: "Austria's foreign policy...
...long as Mr. Hu continued to fulminate, safe behind his Hongkong gratings, the Nanking Government of Generalissimo Chiang, potent chiefly in Central China, despaired of re-establishing its authority in the South. Last week the great haggle ended in a joyous announcement by Nanking Government officials. They had paid Mr. Hu some $200,000, they said, and he has agreed to leave China under pretext of "a detailed inspection tour of European and other countries...