Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indianapolis, Police Captain Lewis Johnson announced the results of municipal research intended to reveal the most efficient speed for expediting traffic. Answer: 23.5 m.p.h. Said Captain Johnson: "At that speed the safe distance between cars is 33 ft. and 2,600 cars can be moved past a given point within an hour...
...Potomac River at 9 a. m.) took to the radio in an international hookup. Together with dignitaries and politicians of both nations gathered at Montfaucon, they celebrated the completion of twelve European monuments and eight cemeteries glorifying and interring 31,000 American soldiers who died to make the World Safe for Democracy...
...Exposition offers no French motor cars, but at 15,000 francs or $560 was offered last week the two-cylinder 32 h. p. Taupin monoseater sport plane, built for safe piloting by amateurs and said to be capable of landing at a speed of only 12½ m. p. h. Slightly larger French sport planes, carrying two, yet also geared to private purchasers in the lowest price class are offered at $900 with a ceiling of 18,000 feet, cruising speed...
...After all, aren't we Chinese?" replied the wounded heroes. Yin meanwhile had completely disappeared, murdered, according to Chinese, by his own men, safe in hiding according to Japanese. The Yin regime had always been carefully described by Japanese as a strictly "spontaneous, autonomous state set up by Chinese"- but after "General" Yin vanished the Japanese commander in North China, Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki, made no bones about officially appointing Yin's successor, put in an even more abject Chinese stoolpigeon for Japan, one Mr. Chi Tseng...
...Main. Founder in 1928 of National Statistical Service, Inc., Mr. Schwarzschild still supervises the annual publication of famed, authoritative American Underwriting Houses and Their Issues. Believing that the obsolete security business begun by Mr. Smythe needs to get beyond Wall Street and the Produce Exchange into the attics and safe-deposit boxes throughout the East, Mr. Schwarzschild last week announced a campaign to arouse owners of forgotten bonds. This week Smythe, Inc.'s first traveling library will leave Manhattan in a trailer for upstate New York in charge of two young men commissioned to set up as consultants...