Word: risked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tracts open. Negro mortgage money is often a stiff 1% or 2% more than for whites (it is easier to get loans for prospering Negroes in the Deep South than it is in Northern states). But mortgage companies are beginning to realize that steadily employed Negroes are a good risk. Chicago's Park Terrace even has a layaway system that allows buyers to sign up for homes and pay out the down payments in monthly installments. "We went into it for a profit," says Dan Kroll, builder of Long Island's Dunbar Estates, "but frankly we are enjoying...
...like panic seized the otiose Laotian government. Crown Prince Savang Vat-hana, 52, was speedily invested as Regent of Laos, taking over from his 74-year-old father, King Sisavong Vong, who abdicated because he felt the country needed a younger and more energetic chief of state. At the risk of exposing the southern provinces of Laos to attacks from Communist guerrillas operating out of northern Thailand, a fresh battalion of loyal troops was airlifted to threatened Samneua. And late in the week Laotian Foreign Minister Khampan Panya took a step that his government had desperately hoped to avoid, directed...
...must our great nation lower itself to the position of consorting with thugs of Nikita Khrushchev's ilk? Since when did we condone oppression, murder, genocide and every other heinous crime known to civilized man by wining and dining the living symbol of tyranny? Why must we risk the integrity of our great nation by staking our Chief Executive to a game of poker with an opponent who is dealing from his own marked deck...
...told in advance of the U.S. decision, promptly said that it, too, was extending the test ban two months to Dec. 31. Following day the Soviet Union announced that it will not resume its own testing until somebody else does-which left it up to the U.S. either to risk the propaganda loss of starting first or to let the suspension rest as it is. without the safeguards, e.g., inspection, it deems necessary to an effective agreement...
...unprofitable properties, e.g., the Chicago American in 1956, the International News Service in 1958, and forced idle properties to produce, e.g., by logging Hearst's 67,000-acre northern California sanctuary, Wyntoon, for an estimated $2.000,000 annual return. Berlin has also invested in new properties whenever the risk looked good. Hearst's stable of 13 magazines, one of the relatively few consistent moneymakers in the empire, has grown by the addition of Sports Afield (1953) and Popular Mechanics (1958). With Avon (117 new titles last year), Businessman Berlin picked up a growing firm in a growing field...