Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promoters of a bus company that won a city franchise; he accepted "beneficences" of $240,000 from Newspaper Publisher Paul Block. Recalling that an earlier Seabury target had admitted getting thousands in cash from "a wonderful tin box," Jimmy protested: "I took it home and put it in a safe-not a vault, not a tin box, a safe in my own house . . . available for Mrs. Walker and myself...
Stalagmight. In Liverpool, England, thieves scaled the 10-ft. wall of Walton Prison, got inside unnoticed, smashed a window and broke down a pair of 3-in. oak doors to get into the warden's office, cracked a safe, left the prison without attracting the attention of 200 jailers or disturbing the sleep of 900 prisoners...
Both these incidents point to a serious problem confronting the aviation industry--safe, effective control of air traffic. The present system, geared to handle out-moded DC-3's, is obviously inadequate, and, as planes become faster and more numerous, the situation grows worse...
Statistics show that air travel, on the whole, is a safe business. But each collision (and there are quite a few, involving military or non-passenger planes, that do not receive wide publicity) indicates that aviation is still not as safe as it might be. The situation will become even more dangerous with the advent of widespread jet traffic, a phenomenon for which American aviation is singularly unprepared...
...present time, the odds are heavily weighted against a summit meeting resulting in any success at all for the United States. Such a conference could be a propaganda disaster for this country, and it seems safe to assume that the Kremlin will engage in no discussion that would not result in a Soviet propaganda victory of some sort. But more important, a summit meeting could easily force the U.S. into a position in which she would have to gloss over a defeat, or sacrifice too heavily for a victory...