Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This walloping five weeks' work sent a wave of dismay through Germany and France. Austria had officially become Italy's little brother, safe for a while from German Nazi aggression. France had lost a major engagement to Mussolini, whose power fanned suddenly over all central Europe...
...work, the U. S. got an indictment against Samuel Insull et al. The "al." included Sam Jr., Martin and 16 of their associates and friends. The charge was using the mails to defraud; that is, selling the securities of Corporation Securities Co. through the mails as "a good safe and sound investment," whereas they knew the securities were not as represented. The indictment is in general terms, the Government screening its detailed evidence until trial...
...over 100 of them in the past ten years, divorced most of them (no disgrace in Arabia). Because he has given up camels for fast bullet-proof motor cars in conducting desert warfare, his favorite wives follow the flag in a close-shuttered regulation police van or pie wagon, safe from prying eyes. Ever since the War Ibn Saud has been fighting to extend his realm. By 1925 he had completed conquest of the Hejaz which contains the holy cities of Medina and Mecca, winning at the same time his greatest source of income, a toll on Mohammedan pilgrims...
...city, mostly British Indians. Before the Saudite troops entered, the greater portion had fled to the nearby island of Kamaran. With the victorious troops in Hodeida, the Emir Feisal, Ibn Saud's second son and Foreign Minister, assured the world that sacking was over and the city quite safe for foreigners. His potent father, he said, had already picked him as the next King of Yemen. Then the Saudite horsemen swept inland toward the thick, sloping walls of Sana...
...years ago by General Billy Mitchell, probably the most tactless and the most capable firebrand that has recently worn the Army khaki, and a proposal which is now nearer to realization than ever before. Efficiently run, this would give us an organized, unified, and powerful airforce, and a comparatively safe and graft-free commercial service. Until the day comes, stick to the rails...