Word: safes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week in Calders, Wis., burglars set to work on the safe of Calders Elevator Co. When the safe's protective mechanism released a flood of tear gas they had to leave. Not discouraged, they marched down the street, broke into a firehouse, stole two gas masks, returned to the safe, finished the job ($400 cash, $2,800 nontransferable stock...
...price and, finally, the effect of a private sale is that the company can never, during the 30-year life of these bonds, take advantage, as it otherwise could, of lower bond prices in future years in purchasing bonds for the sinking fund, for it is safe to say that none of this small group of private buyers would sell their bonds for less than the call price...
...Weakened by a few cloudy, symbolical passages, Black Is My Truelove's Hair is nevertheless a lively story, and Dena Janes is a right pretty girl. But to her admirers the book's biggest news is that Elizabeth Madox Roberts is out of her blind alley and safe again in her old Kentucky home...
...authority on thunderstorms, Sir George Clarke Simpson, Director of the British Meteorological Office, people riding in an automobile with an all-steel top are practically immune from lightning, even though the automobile itself may be struck. The movement of the car does not affect its chances of being hit. Safe rule in a thunderstorm: drive slowly...
Really scathing attacks on Neville Chamberlain were made almost entirely from extremely safe distances of several thousand miles, notably by certain Manhattan radio news broadcasters. Of these. Johannes Steel, a German agent on mysterious missions in Brazil until the Nazis came into power, was the most caustic: "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. So they call it peace! . . . They call it peace because the victim, not being able to save itself from its friends, cannot face the enemy alone. They call it peace because the victor received the spoils before instead of after battle! . . . The England of Mr. Chamberlain...