Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their higher costs, and more expanded production capacities, should be reluctant to speak for lower duties. In a run-down world where business expansion seems temporarily ended, producers in the United States may wish to keep their domestic markets at least, strangled as they may be without running the risk of exposing themselves to foreign, low cost producers. Ritchie states his belief in tariff revision. It is a question whether industry will support this stand. At least the Maryland Governor has ample experience in government, and economical budgeting and finance. Possibly it will be another case of the "local...
...long before. He experiences some trouble getting it because there is a party in the suite where it is hidden and because his accomplice turns out to be a lady member of a rival gang of thieves. She betrays him but regrets it, in time to persuade him to risk a reformation. Produced by a small company with an inexpensive cast, cheap sets and a trick story, the film is fair entertainment and should be even fairer as an investment for its makers. Good shot: a fat person (Bert Roach) softly crying "Help!" as he tries, with two straws...
...summons tonight is a call to the faith of a people. Not to faith in some rosy panacea or pretentious theory but to their intelligent faith in themselves and in individual resourcefulness and enterprise, and to the sense of responsibility of every man to his neighbor. The safest risk in the world is a share in the future of the American people...
Said Henry Ford fortnight ago: "We're going to risk everything we've got to create useful work for just as many people as possible." At that time 70,000 men were working at the Ford Dearborn factory. Last week 1,300 who did not work there, but wanted to, gathered on a Detroit street corner. Quietly they began marching to the River Rouge plant to ask for jobs. At the Dearborn city line their number had doubled, their quietude had yielded to aggressiveness. Fifty Dearborn police tried to turn them back. Out from the mob burst...
...lacking in drama were the Ford movements last week. With a sensationalism he has not attempted since he upped wages when everybody else was reluctantly promising to maintain them (TIME, Dec. 2, 1929), he declared he was "prepared to risk everything we've got. . . . We have nothing the public did not give us. No surplus exists for private benefit; every surplus is provided for future use. The future is here now and we are going to do our utmost?to risk everything if necessary to see if we cannot make what the country needs most?jobs. We're going...