Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revealed as having turned down a Morgan offer on ethical grounds was Board Chairman Edward Grant Buckland of New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Partner Whitney made a spirited defense of his firm's practice on the ground that its beneficiaries were willing and financially able to risk possible losses, did not have to borrow to buy, were not likely to dump their holdings for a quick profit and thus unsettle the market...
...below the market price (and similar amounts with offerings of Alleghany Corp. and other shares)? A. No. The firm had no such intent, regarded the shares as speculative (not the type of securities it would offer to the public); therefore disposed of them to people who knew the risk and could afford to take it; probably would not have done so except at cost. Q. Was not the offer of such shares at wholesale prices a kind of bribe to get favors from public and corporate officials? A. No. The shares were only offered to clients and friends, including retired...
...many unknown facts about the subject. At Memphis last week two dozen men read papers about goiter-from Dr. George Everett Beilby (Albany) on "Toxic Diffuse Goiter in Children" to Dr. Samuel James Waterworth (Clearfield, Pa.) on "Pre-and Post-Operative Treatment of the Plus-Four Bad Risk Goiter Case...
...baseballs thrown to them from the top of a 625-foot Sky Ride tower (see p. 14). When a mathematician found that the balls would be traveling 136.80 miles an hour, would strike with an impact of 6,604 foot pounds, White Sox Owner Louis A. Comiskey refused to risk his players...
...Pacific nonstop, a feat which has not been duplicated. Soon after their return Pilot Pangborn broke into print with a grievance against his partner, alleging that Herndon had forced him into a disadvantageous contract shortly before the takeoff, when Pangborn had to accept or back out, running the risk of being called "yellow." Herndon made no public reply, but a school of Pangborn-sympathizers nursed the belief that Pangborn had been treated shabbily. The whole business was soon forgotten by the public, until last month when Liberty published an article by Aviatrix Elinor Smith entitled...