Word: risked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infrequently accompanied by enthusiasm for foreign investments. However, economists have long predicted that our credits and te some extent our current trade balances must be adjusted with Europe by importing securities. This winter it looks as if such securities could be made and sold here without too great risk to lenders and without exorbitant interest rates to borrowers. If so, a new stage in the history of the U. S. as a creditor nation will be introduced...
...convention was called to elect a President. The Republican party headed by the junta expelled its opponents from the convention and chose its own leader Juan Bautista Saavedra President ? really dictator. He promptly exiled his opponents from the country. Early last spring he decided it was safe to risk an election. In order to make the election as safe as possible the Republican party nominated for President Dr. Jose Gabino Villanueva, one of the foremost surgeons of South America, former chief surgeon of the Bolivian Army. Senor Villanueva was a member of the Liberal (opposition) party...
...Peking the Chinese staff of the British Legation remained on strike, despite representations made to the Government. At the suburban railway station of Paomachang, which is much used by foreigners, two large signs, warning Britishers to leave the country or risk being killed, were nailed...
About three quarters of the purchasers of automobiles pay for them on credit over the course of the following year. The theoretical risk to the sellers has led progressive Walter P. Chrysler to adopt a plan whereby each purchaser of a Chrysler car will automatically receive a fire and theft insurance policy on it. The cost of the insurance is included in the price of the car. Thus not only is the owner protected, but also the maker. The idea has also appealed strongly to the General Motors Corporation, who are said to favor its adoption on their enormous output...
...farce. No producer would risk it, so the actors gave it themselves. Three married couples and a butler set out to nationalize women in Yonkers. One of the couples is just leaving home after quarrels; one is just arriving after an elopement. Opposed to the butler's Soviet theories is a heaving sea captain with a notion to hammer anyone mistreating a woman. All this loudly played, and not amusingly...