Word: safes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vandenberg best symbolized all phases and shades of the opposition to embargo repeal, thus was chosen to open debate for the antis, while Clark (diehard extremist) was to manage the Floor fight; and Borah (traditional romantic) was to have the last word. Thus the "Big Michigander,"* always safe, sound, middle-of-the-road, now stood up to the Pretorian Guard of his party-Big Business. For there was no doubt he was flying in the face of Michigan's corporate empire-General Motors. Henry Ford, however, vigorously backed his stand. To the American Legion (convening this week in Chicago...
...bank at Sao Paulo, Brazil; $1,000,000 in Swedish kronor, Danish kroner, Dutch guilders and Belgian francs in Banco di Sicilia's branch at Trieste and A. B. Svenska Handelsbanken's branch at Malmö, Sweden. He was said to have safe deposits in Zürich, Chicago ($450,000) and at Sumitomo Bank, Ltd. in San Francisco...
...panicked, British get bored, and by last week they were heartily fed up with groping around in the dark waiting for gas and bombs which never materialized. And the Government began to realize that wolf-wolfing the populace every night was poor psychology. A reaction set in. In "safe" areas, 2,000 cinemas opened, reported exceptional business. Actors went on the road: 73-year-old Dame Marie Tempest in Dear Octopus, John Gielgud in The Importance of Being Earnest, Diana Wynyard in Design for Living. Christmas pantomime Producer Francis Laidler went ahead with plans for Mother Goose, The Ugly Sisters...
...seems safe to state," said Dr. Jungeblut, "that under certain restricted experimental conditions, vitamin C is capable of influencing favorably the course of the infection in monkeys." The vitamin does not relieve paralytic symptoms, he continued, but merely checks the course of the disease before paralysis sets in. Dr. Jungeblut has not yet tried vitamin C injections in human patients, but he feels sure that "a low level of vitamin C nutrition predisposes to infection and severity of attack...
...France, carrying 1,777 passengers (400 more than her normal capacity), docked safe & sound after following a secret course with portholes blackened and blue bulbs burning dimly on deck. Her officers denied, her jittery passengers swore that they had spotted German U-boats. Café Socialite Grand Duchess Marie, delighted to be alive, took up a purse of $2,500 for the crew...