Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until the finish. As he spun steadily around the track and no more accidents happened, the crowd wandered about the grounds picking four-leaf clovers, swigging bottled beer, munching hamburger sandwiches. His lead never seriously threatened, Meyer coasted the last 25 mi. to save gas and play safe, crossed the line in 4 hr. 48 min. The spectators reassembled to cheer him, almost crushed him when they crowded around his car. Meyer kissed his wife, vowed he was going to quit racing and go back to California. Six minutes later, Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis sputtered across the line for second...
...private bankers would continue to issue securities for the biggest and best known corporations whose directors would be reasonably safe in signing information supplied by the most famed accountants and experts who could, if brought to court, show they had tried their best to put their honest opinion about a great company into figures...
...greyhound racing. John Buchan is famed in Great Britain and well-known in the U. S. for his adventurous, Kiplingesque historical novels (Greenmantle, Witch Wood, The Blanket of the Dark, etc. etc.). British schoolboys read them and are given a Buchan history of the World War-sound, patriotic, safe stuff. For 25 years John Buchan has been an elder in a Scottish church in London. When informed of his appointment as Lord High Commissioner he said: "I am going to be a dour Presbyterian...
...paid on deposits and say 3% earned, deduct clerical expenses and overhead (less than for most banks because there are few small transactions) and add brokerage commissions. There is Morgan & Co.'s "straight banking" and brokerage profit, probably $8,000,000 a year more or less, a safe and satisfactory business...
Deals. But after the partners have invested their depositors' money in safe and liquid securities, they have still their capital (net worth) which they can employ in deals. The capital of the House of Morgan amounts to less than $100,000,000 (it passed that mark in 1929, was $119,000,000 at the close of that year, stood at $53,000,000 at the close of 1932). Morgan deals are of two kinds...