Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professional B. O. M.'s (Big Outdoor Men) and dude-wranglers, my job is to make the jungle travel-easy for travel-bored, publicized, paying guests. And it is true, as several well known, faithfully-recording explorers have recently written, that the primitive jungle is as safe as modern Fifth Avenue, safer, possibly, than Broadway. In common with several of my colleagues, I think that Mr. Duguid overwrites his minor incidents for purposes of lay-appeal...
...disgraceful failure, our entire banking system does credit to a collection of imbeciles. ... I favor a constitutional amendment that will deprive all States of the power of creating and controlling banks and that will put one federal banking system into effect which will make every bank in the nation safe...
...Wall Street only to learn that the lenders would demand a voice in running his automobile company. He distrusts the U. S. banking system, feels that bankers too often speculate with deposits. Said he earlier last week: "The first duty of a bank is to be a safe repository for money. . . . It's just as if I put my car in a garage and when I came to get it, I found somebody else had borrowed it and run it into a tree." He thinks depositors should pay a small bank fee for service just as automobilists...
...Bureau of Home Economics (Department of Agriculture) last week aimed a bulletin at a conviction widely held by U. S. housewives: that it is unsafe to leave food in tin cans after opening. "Under proper conditions of storage," said the Bureau, "food is perfectly safe . . . spoils no faster and no slower in the open can than in any other container." Some acid foods "like fruit and tomatoes, when stored in an open can, do tend to dissolve iron. This may give the food a sightly metallic taste that is not harmful. If the label on the can advises removing...
...City Company. The "write-off" consisted merely in getting these frozen loans off the books of the bank and on to the books of the security company. And this was done in the interest of depositors in accordance with a vigorous and highly successful attempt to make the bank safe for depositors. If the loans are never paid back, the bank's stockholders will suffer, not the depositors. Example: whether to "close out" a frozen loan at a loss or to attempt to quicken it back to life is a banker's daily problem. On Cuban Sugar...