Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...safe 50-40, Taft's injunction-seizure amendment won. A.F.L.'s old William Green sent Scott Lucas an angry letter telling him to fight no longer to make "the Taft bill more palatable" since it was already "absolutely unacceptable." This, said Taft, was "probably the most presumptuous statement that any individual has ever made to the Senate...
When one motor of their chartered twin-engine Lockheed conked out 60 miles from Columbus, Ohio, Vice President Alben Berkley and a planeload of Washington brass, including Attorney General Tom Clarlc, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson, and Air Secretary Stuart Symington, made a safe emergency landing. After an hour's delay at Columbus, they commandeered a Navy plane and took off for St. Louis to keep a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner date. Next day the Veep flew on to Los Angeles in a regular commercial airliner...
...confusion was no laughing matter. It meant that in case of an atomic bombing, or a mishap at an atomic plant, no one would be able to say just when it would be safe to send in rescue squads. Said Dr. Newell: "This is like saying you don't know whether a teaspoonful or tumblerful of poison will make a man sick...
...mammals and fight with their horns like embittered rhinoceroses. Though ocelots hunted by night in the rooms of the Rancho Grande, and army ants on the march once had to be diverted from the laboratory by 20 gallons of flaming gasoline, Beebe firmly maintains that the jungle was as safe as a church. During the three years, 1945, 1946 and 1948, he experienced nothing worse than a broken leg -from a fall off a ladder...
System. In Joliet, Ill., Otis Wendling, a prize safe driver for ten years, revealed that good driving is easy: the trick is to "drive defensively, as if other drivers are dangerous maniacs...