Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...positive recovery measure. . . . The absentee management of unnecessary holding company control has lost touch with and has lost the sympathy of the communities it pretends to serve. ... A business that loses the confidence of its customers and the goodwill of the public cannot long continue to be a good risk for the investor...
...difficult out of his own head. He went to the Veterans' Administration, got its best wizard with figures to do the job. Assistant Administrator Harold Walker Breining is a fat, fortyish actuary who, since 1917, when he went overseas in field service for the Division of War Risk Insurance, has been making statistical tables dance jigs for the Government. Mr. Breining found a way to calculate interest on the Bonus starting from 1918 instead of 1925 and still let the Treasury off for something like half a billion dollars. Charles F. Boots, who gets $7,000 for helping...
...street. A few with truly pivotal necks may feel at ease when cars whisk by from all directions. It may even be asserted that Harvard Square training will make this college preeminent in the hundred-yard dash. But the great majority would be content to cross streets without risk to life and limb, and keep before them that great American possibility of becoming president...
...Faster heat radiation, lengthening life. 2) Smaller size, saving space. 3) Better lead wire arrangement, improving short-wave reception. 4) Increased protection against magnetic and static interference (especially in airplanes and automobiles). 5) Less risk of damage in handling, shipping, rough use. 6) Short lead wires, promoting better amplification at high frequencies...
Most bankers would give credit for the current flood of corporate refunding, not to the Treasury, but to Chairman Joseph Patrick ("Joe") Kennedy of the Securities & Exchange Commission. It was his new simplified registration form for old, established companies that tempted bankers and their clients to risk operations under the Securities...