Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recommending rejection of all cruiser bids, he charged the shipbuilders with collusion, accused them of protecting one another so that each would certainly be low bidder on at least one type of vessel. The Navy investigated, could find no substantiation of Mr. Trammell's charges. But to play safe three ranking admirals flew to Hyde Park, laid all the bids before President Roosevelt, got that onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy's approval for each & every contract. Also announced last week was the Navy's 16-ship building program in its own yards. Brooklyn and Philadelphia each...
...Latin American president have need to be Sons Carlos & Luis and Daughter Maria rushed back the way they had come Though machine guns seemed to be firing though shouts of "Revolution! filled the air, they reached home to find that the Arsenal, not the Presidential Palace was afire. Safe and calm, President Sacasa was swiftly drafting two orders the first proclaimed a state ot siege in Managua the Capital, the second martial law throughout Nicaragua...
...Next man up was Wally Berger, one of the National League's two leading homerun hitters. Hubbell struck him out. Randy Moore, the next batter, singled, but when the Giants' Shortstop Ryan caught a line drive from the next batter Hubbell's record was safe. To make it safer, he pitched 1⅔ more scoreless innings and the crowd had begun to think seriously about Walter Johnson's world record of 56 scoreless innings in a row, when, with two out in the sixth, Boston's Rightfielder Moore on his third strike hit a single...
...many depositors have put their money in banks for safe-keeping and then have not been able to get it out. . . . It's just as if I put my car into a garage and when I came to get it out, found that somebody else had borrowed it and run it into a tree...
...Safe, Gemmie." On June 14 Pilot Jimmie Mattern, flying around the world, took off from Khabarovsk, Southeastern Siberia, for Nome (TIME, June 19). He never arrived. For 23 days no word was heard of him. Last week Mattern's backers in Chicago received an electrifying radiogram from Anadir, trading post on the bleak peninsula which forms the northeasternmost tip of Siberia. It read: "Safe . . . Gemmie." Further despatches indicated that Mattern had made a forced landing 50 mi. from there, damaging his plane Century of Progress; had subsisted for days on game shot with a rifle given him by admiring...