Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high tariff Tory. But until the aims of Russia's Five-Year Plan become realities Russia must trade with the outside world. The Anglo-Russian embargoes, results of the British engineers' propaganda trial two months ago, have been a serious blow to the Soviet. It is a safe bet that M. Litvinov will do nothing to disturb the Conference until he has finished his private bargaining with the British Foreign Office in an effort to have both embargoes lifted without loss of face by either country...
...June issue of Sportsman Pilot, out last week, appeared the beginning of an anthology of flying songs. First contributions came from John C. Haddock, Pennsylvania mining engineer and sportsman pilot. Pilot Haddock recalled a chantey by which student aviators in the Navy were taught the rudiments of safe flying, each verse pointing a moral. Excerpts...
...Playing Safe. At the end of the week in which Jimmie Mattern airily promised to circle the earth from and to Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. (TIME, June 12) he was in Khabarovsk. Far Eastern Siberia, so utterly exhausted by a grueling flight across sea and land that he could not even answer newsmen. With all chance gone of beating the 8½-day globe record of Post & Gatty he now was trying to make the best possible solo record, yet heeding the cabled exhortations of his backers to "take it easy and play it safe." Sorriest mishap of Mattern...
...been negotiating a $49,500 income tax lien with Sherwood through the latter's attorney but did not know where Sherwood was. Would Collector Duggan "play ball" with the American? He would. A rendezvous with Sherwood and his lawyers was arranged in a Hoboken saloon, where Sherwood was safe from a New York contempt-of-court citation (and $50,000 fine). Next morning the American burst out with the neatest, most spectacular scoop that Manhattan had seen in a long time...
...eyes were half closed, his tongue protruded. He was being strangled by his scarf which was being wound around the hub of the propeller. Alert Gliderman Levin connected the dual controls in the front cockpit, grasped the joystick, kicked the rudder pedals, leveled and landed the airplane. Safe on the ground he looked again to Pilot Hawes, found him unconscious. Unlike Dancer Isadora Duncan, who died when her scarf caught in a wheel of her automobile, Pilot Hawes came...