Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liner on French Reef in the Florida Keys (TIME, Sept. 16). Next morning in Washington President Roosevelt, master of the psychological moment, announced that $5,000,000 in relief money would be spent in starting a trans-Florida ship canal that would forever make it unnecessary for seagoers to risk their lives in circumnavigating Florida's long, hurricane-blistered thumb...
...learned that leading the advance from the south were those swankest of regiments, the Genoa Dragoons and Aosta Lancers. In eight days they had covered 250 miles from Dolo to the mountain slopes beyond Noghelli. Snipers fought them every mile, but failed to stay the advance. As willing to risk his own life as those of his men, monocled Graziani went with them...
...shut down its wire factory at York, Pa. At that factory, only one of its kind in the General Electric setup, insulated wire is proofed against water and fire by impregnation in a synthetic wax prepared from chlorine and naphthalene. People who work with such waxy compounds run the risk of getting their pores plugged, breaking out with pimples. To safeguard against that industrial hazard in its York factory, General Electric compelled every workman to take a shower bath before leaving the factory, supplied freshly laundered overalls twice a week, kept a physician in constant attendance...
...Admiral had been sent from Tokyo to smash the Conference and he was about to smash the Conference. By so doing he would incur for Japan the supreme risk that her defiance might stir up the Great Powers to do something at last to check the onslaught Japan launched in 1931 when she thumbed her short nose at the Briand-Kellogg Pact, made war her national policy and, withdrawing from the League of Nations in 1933, continued to advance upon China in a predatory campaign still highly successful. Perhaps there was no real risk of the tabby cat powers doing...
...month during training and $125 a month during active service, with extra for flying risk. A daily allowance of $1 for living expenses is added; also every cadet is insured in the amount of $10,00 the government. At the end of the four year period a lump sum of $1200 will be paid. Uniform allowances are also supplied...