Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Help! Police! In Springfield, Mass., Stanley Bochan was busily cracking a safe when he suddenly got scared, concluded that crime doesn't pay, telephoned police to come...
...editors of the Times give him a free hand, don't even read his safe-&-sane, stuffy, Times-like pieces before they appear in print. One Fine series (on sloppy teaching of U.S. history) won a 1943 Pulitzer Prize. Last week Dr. Fine (he has a Ph.D. in education) began a new twelve-part series on what was wrong with U.S. education. It was based on a six-month swing he had made around the nation's public schools, and on the answers to 5,000 of his questionnaires...
...airplane has been more buffeted by the "Is it safe?" controversy than Lockheed's four-engine, 60-passenger Constellation. Last week the black-eyed Connie found an outspoken champion in Assistant Secretary of Commerce (for air) William A. M. Burden. A knowing airman, Bill Burden told the Senate committee investigating air safety that "disproportionate attention" had been paid to the Connie's "occasional mishaps...
...Canadian Travel Bureau in Ottawa came a worried letter from a Michigan resident who had read of Premier Maurice Duplessis' all-out campaign against Jehovah's Witnesses (TiME, Dec. 16). The letter writer, who was planning a Canadian tour, asked : "Is it safe for a Protestant to travel in Quebec...
When the executive got fed up with these contrivances, he could hop to the other, or "play" side, of the desk. There he would find an electric refrigerator with three ice trays, a cabinet for bottles, decanters and glasses, a personal combination-lock safe. Properly fortified, the executive could return to the "business" side and to the desk's most dazzling feature: a magnetized pen holder. The executive need only place his pen close to the holder, let go and the magnet would suck the pen into place in the holder...