Word: risks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quoting that line without naming its author, Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper sizzled: "I think it is very much to the point to be thinking of our skins-at least to be thinking of those American families whose sons would have to risk their skins." Into the Congressional Record went the Clapper column, six pages after Franklin Roosevelt...
Jellicoe strung out to prevent Scheer's return, rather than pursue him and risk a night battle. Scheer took that risk and, due to balled-up British orders and wireless, got through the British destroyers with loss of only one battleship. Each side claimed victory. The loss score was: German-one battleship, one battle cruiser, four light cruisers, five destroyers, a total of eleven. British-three battle cruisers, three armored cruisers, eight destroyers, total of 14. The British decorated a lot of their Admirals.* The Germans, though their fleet never emerged again until it was time to surrender, later...
These agencies will have the tasks of directing the flow of materials, controlling prices, securing cooperation from industry, and administering foreign trade. They would also establish government corporations to assume business war-risks not reasonable to impose on private firms, as, for instance, supplying war credits, shipbuilding, power development, and war risk insurance...
...still at her dock at week's end was the American Trader. Her C.I.O. crew suddenly struck for a $150-per-month war risk compensation for each seaman (average wages: $70 a month). The union also wants a $25,000 life insurance policy for each man, to be paid for by the U. S. Treasury. Another crew walked off the U. S. Lines' American Traveler with identical demands. By week's end two passenger vessels and four freighters destined for evacuation of U. S. refugees from Europe were tied up, foundering Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
...planemakers this meant little. In taking over $100,000,000 worth of foreign orders in recent months, they had put a clause in their contracts requiring foreign buyers to accept delivery in the U. S. if export became illegal. Now Britain and France have to take the risk that the arms embargo may not be repealed...