Word: risks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come? The obvious answer was that Big Steel's offer was too good to resist. Stockholders would cash in on Consolidated's lush wartime operations, not have to risk peacetime competition. Big Steel would get a thriving company (with a $35 million backlog) and a fabricator for the vast production of its Geneva plant. Steelmen gossiped that Big Steel, impressed by the way Roach had pulled Consolidated off the rocks, intended to get him too. But Roach was mum about that...
...very painful to re-discovere an old discovery. I risk such a blamage, because the case is interesting...
...general, industry accepted most of Nathan's facts but decried his conclusions and-most of all-his implications, which in effect would put a ceiling on profits, discourage risk capital, tend to squeeze out marginal enterprises, and otherwise disturb the machinery of free enterprise...
...only a game of musical chairs. But it was more than that. The P.M. succeeded in giving some of his Cabinet members, weary from wartime service, easier jobs without losing them. If any had left, the P.M. might have had to bring in new men from outside, involving the risk of by-elections...
West quoted Burggraf as attributing the decision to the executive committee's belief that "Mannerhouse was not a play; that since the New York production of the play had been dropped, the H.D.C. would not receive national publicity for its pro-Broadway performance; and that the Club would risk the prestige it gained from its recent production of 'Adam the Creator' if it went ahead with 'Mannerhouse." The former H.D.C. director challenged the validity of these reasons...