Word: safes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their anxiety last week, Lord Swinton and his Air Ministry subordinates decided that they could be on the safe side only by placing orders in the U. S. for the manufacture of at least 700 fighting planes. This decision came just after U. S. aircraft salesmen had left London, disgruntled by the cool assurances of civil servants that Britain was making and would make all fighting aircraft she needed. Under Congress' so-called Espionage Act of June 15, 1917 it may still be a crime punishable by 20 years' imprisonment to export equipment such as fighting planes...
...turn should permit the companies to reject men they consider unfit, maintain the traditional right of the marine owner to employ whomever he chooses. Thus employers could not lock out workers for reasons of prejudice or party, but would still control the calibre of the crews, on which safe conduct at sea so much depends. Agreements based on these points could be made without resort to strikes and violence along the coastline, if either side would adopt a spirit of fair play. For clearly the best interests of the shipping trade demand a decent standard of living for sailors...
...personally don't feel the slightest doubt about my own election or the success of the entire Republican state and national ticket," declared Haigis. New England has been safe G.O.P. territory ever since 1934, he feels. The real battleground is in Pennsylvania and the states west as far as Illinois. New York he considers as virtually in the Landon column...
...once again briefly freed from the ties of home, dirty up the town which has been lucky enough to secure their services, pinch and heckle the female passers-by, and in general demonstrate to the world the manifold advantages of the democracy for which it was, unfortunately, not made safe...
...long, narrow tubes shedding their garish blue light on meat in a butcher's showcase foils bacterial attack so successfully that only moderate refrigeration is necessary. Meat packers who "tender" their meats by hanging or aging (allowing enzymes to break down the tough fibers) now find it safe to speed up the tendering process by using warmer temperatures under violet-ray protection. Bakers irradiate bread and cake before wrapping, to kill mold spores, increase the salable life of the product by several days...