Word: hazarding
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...farmer. The corn estimate-2,100,000,000 bu.-was by last week a piece of outdated optimism. The potato crop in upper New York State, in New Jersey, on Long Island was suffering severely. Massachusetts had to close all its forests to the public because of the fire hazard. On the Pacific Coast the fruit crop had already suffered considerably. In April and May drought had been a local disaster. In July it was a national catastrophe...
...ancestry "out of sight." To trace the fortune he left when he died in 1930 it was not necessary to go back farther than his father, William Collins Whitney, traction tycoon, Secretary of the Navy under Cleveland, who left him $24,000,000; and his uncle, Col. Oliver Hazard Payne, who left him about $12,000,000. Last week Harry Payne Whitney's fortune at the time of his death was appraised by New York State for tax collection purposes at $62,808,000 net. That was considerably less than the estate left by his brother Payne Whitney...
...aviation companies, few laymen can get exact information about the risks involved. Last week the risks were discussed in an article entitled "Flying Is Still Dangerous" in The American Mercury by Kenneth Brown Collings, Wartime Navy flyer, onetime mail pilot, flight instructor and airport manager, author of Flight Hazard. Some of Author Collings' statements: Average age of airline pilots is 32. Average men of 32 engaged in normal ground occupations die at the rate of less than 3 per 1,000 per year. Airline pilots die at the rate of 25 per 1,000. But-the average pilot flies...
...scheduled U. S. air transport lines the extra hazard per hour of passenger flight is approximately 66 times that of normal ground occupations. Scheduled air transport in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands approaches that of the U. S. in safety. In Great Britain it is "possibly twice as hazardous"; in France and Mexico, at least five times as hazardous...
...John Hazard Browning's sons were not sorry when the Civil War came. They wangled a huge contract for soldiers' uniforms out of the Federal Government. After Appomattox they might have gone bankrupt had not a man named Henry W. King joined the firm. War had ruined their southern business, so Henry W. King opened a store in Chicago. It made so much money that the Brownings were glad to add his name to their corporate title, open other stores in the West. Browning, King had a chain of haberdasheries while the late James Butler, founder...