Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prompted perhaps by England's assuming part of the insurance risk on Cunard Line's fast new trans-Atlantic liner (TIME, Aug. 11), Louis Rollin, France's Minister of Mercantile Marine, took steps last week to make the French Rooster still more of a seagoing bird. When the Chambre des Députés opens in October he will present two bills calculated to encourage the construction of fast commercial vessels and relieve shipyard unemployment...
...guides are equally effective, I should select the younger man as probably possessing the greater stamina. Under such circumstances, there is no doubt in my mind but that the leader should remain. There is little probability that the son could stand the hardship. He would be too poor a risk. His mother probably would not wish to be separated from him and it would not be advisable to separate them. I should not select the scientist of sixty since presumably most of his work would have been achieved. I should select the young scientist, not because he was my best...
...Last week Director Gilbert G. Budwig of the aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce, refused to sanction the flight, refused to waive the rule requiring aircraft to remain 300 ft. apart in the air. He said: "It is a stunt, and an extremely dangerous stunt. The plan involves too much risk of human life to make any conceivable benefits which might be derived worth while. It would serve aviation no better than flagpole sitting for the same length of time...
...England such a man would be a fairly good insurance risk. At Sunderland last week one Charles Edward Smith burst through a crowd, jumped on the running board of Edward of Wales's slowly moving limousine. Without display of firearms Mr. Smith was quietly arrested but released from custody when he pleaded...
Compensation Plan. When the U. S. entered the War, President Wilson inaugurated the war risk insurance system as a means of avoiding the kind of pension payments which were such a scandal after the Civil War. In 1919 was inaugurated the system of compensating those actually disabled in War service. Veterans' organizations proudly disapproved of any pension system and the whole structure of governmental aid was built away from that old practice. On the theory that they would never be pensioned, veterans demanded and received from Congress a Bonus which was called "adjusted compensation." The word "pension...