Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steel production reached 1,710,000 tons a week (97.7% of capacity), the highest in peacetime history. Wilfred Sykes, president of Inland Steel Co., predicted that even at present capacity the industry "will be able to balance supply and demand during 1948." Nevertheless, the Department of Commerce played it safe by slapping export controls on 36 more steel products. This brought about 95% of all iron and steel shipped to foreign countries (except Canada) under its licensing system...
...performance of "Oedipus Tyrannus" in Sanders. Its being by an ancient made it passable. Its being given in Greek made it somewhat laudable. And its being the first known performance in America of a classical play in the original language combined novelty with austerity, making it indubitably safe to perform...
...Take chances and play it safe, get on the right side of people and knock their heads in if they get in your way, and above all get the breaks," is Clark's formula for the quickest method of raising coin enough to buy mink spats and diamond stickpins...
From his relatively safe vantage point he observed a local constable, whom he first mistook for a 250 pound Notre Dame fullback, put an affectionate hand on the shoulder of his less timorous roommate and ask, in what he termed a somewhat persuasive manner...
Roger N. Baldwin 04, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, cast a dubious eye towards the query "How Safe Are American Civil Rights?" at the fourth Law School Forum last night...