Word: risking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoff can sympathize with Chicago's famed Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone in the matter of the risk and privations a big promoter must suffer. Once "Boo Boo" felt it would be good for his health to spend weeks and weeks indoors. When the danger, whatever it was, had passed "Boo Boo" turned up again at his old haunt, a multi-roomed suite in a Philadelphia hotel. Once again the "mob" made whoopee. Once again "Boo Boo" played emperor among his rabelaisian underlings and generous host to out-of-town visitors. Visiting sport-writers among whom "Boo Boo" is universally...
...Journalists insinuate that I never fly because I am unwilling to risk my life. You see that an air voyage has no terrors...
...dollars. They . . . touch directly the lives of comparatively few people. Yet there have been indications of a more widespread realization of the important place these organizations occupy in the marketing structure. . . . The futures exchanges bring into the market a large number of equity traders who . . . lift the burden of risk from the shoulders of producer, merchant...
...Analyst Moody, 38 years in Wall Street, not in need of food, added, less humbly: ''There is. perhaps, a way to advise how to invest more or less wisely and with a minimum of risk...
...bank account, where it draws 2% as a commercial deposit. Or it may ask the bank to lend the money out on call, at interest rates ranging from 5 to 10%. As the bank asks only a small commission for this service and generally assumes all the risk, the conversion of surpluses into call loans has become a popular feature of corporation financing. In the last year, the total of such loans has risen from $906,144,000 to $1,808,645,000. To the corporations, this practice seems both obvious and admirable. But to the paternal superbankers, guarding...