Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inside the difference was immediately noticeable. Admonitory signs were everywhere. "Have you locked your safe?" Guards checked each visitor's name against a calling list, escorted him to & from his appointment, meticulously examined each employee's special tamper-proof pass. There were no exceptions...
Atomic Adventure. The U.S. already knew a little of what lay beyond. Speculation about the establishment of atomic power plants for peacetime uses ranged from five years to 30. But no one had yet discovered a safe, effective shield against atomic radiation in industrial use. No one was sure how much uranium was available for it. There were tremendous peaks of social, economic, technological forces. Some of the revolutionary forces were already in beneficent use: radioisotopes, byproducts of the bomb, for medicine and scientific research. Others could be roughly charted...
...blame for Italy's being in history's junk yard? Italy's witty ex-Premier Francesco Nitti named a couple of safe scapegoats: Christopher Columbus and Niccolo Machiavelli. Machiavelli, Nitti explained, had "made us Italians out as men who are always ready to lie," Columbus was an even bigger culprit: his "indiscretion," Nitti claimed, had "shifted the axis of the world to the West," and Italy had been off the beam ever since...
...believe that "a writer's apt to evolve very much after he's 40," but at 53 he was off to the marshes near Newburyport, Mass. to work on a new novel. At Santa Monica, Calif., KATHERINE ANNE PORTER had finished two-thirds of No Safe Harbor, a parable on fascism based on a diary she kept of a boat trip in 1931 from Veracruz to Bremerhaven...
There was nothing surprising about the issue's success. Up to the first $2,540,000,000, the Bank's bonds will, in effect, be guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury. They are, therefore, as safe as U.S. bonds-and they bring more interest. The real test will come when private investors are asked to subscribe beyond this guarantee point. Nonetheless, the success of the first issue was heartening to McCloy, who had found only three months ago that "nobody was interested in our securities. We talked to many an insurance company and bank-and the unanimous answer...