Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from. SESP's new well, safe drinking water is carried through Brazilian-made pipes to faucets spotted across the town. There are SESP-built privies behind the houses. DDT has even made it possible to sleep without a mosquito...
...Stomp. The letter was nearly done. "It is said that in the last moments of one's life one thinks of all the bad things. I feel better in that I had my wish in learning of your safe return to Greenwich -you were so wonderful-understanding -I'm glad the newspapers gave you a decent report ... I can perhaps feel that as my last thoughts didn't turn up a lot of bad that I wasn't too bad in life . . . which God knows is more than bad enough." He added a postscript, "What...
...seemed like a good, safe time for a princess to assume royal duties. The Czar's Russia was distant and implausible. The U.S., fighting Spain, was young, uncoordinated and callow. Queen Victoria ruled Britannia, and Britannia ruled the waves. Young ladies learned the simple difference between right & wrong along with embroidery and piano playing. A new century was just around the corner, bright with the promise of Progress...
...Stars & Stripes Handicap (TIME, July 19), and Trainer Jones figured that Citation was still "ten days away from his best race." The morning of the Derby, Jones warned Jockey Eddie Arcaro: "Watch out for Papa Redbird," the horse that had just won the Arlington Classic. To be on the safe side, Jones entered another Calumet horse, Free America, a big, flashy, but unseasoned three-year-old whom Calumet is getting ready for the fall stakes...
California's Lane-Wells Co. has the combination to a safe packed with black gold. It specializes in getting oil from wells that have run dry. By literally shooting out the oil with a gadget called a gun perforator, Lane-Wells has increased the yield of U.S. wells by an estimated $200 million. Last week, with demand for oil at a peak, the company was booming as never before. For five consecutive months, it has grossed more than $1,000,000 a month. With a second-quarter net of $1,143,200, Lane-Wells was earning around...