Word: bankrupt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never reopened. According to the RFC bank examiner it was "the most honest failure I have ever seen." Of some $4,000,000 loaned to ranchers, the banks got back only $200,000. Of their $15,800,000, Wingfield depositors got back about half. In 1935 "King George" went bankrupt. Assets: $10,500. Liabilities...
...these increases went into effect, they would cost the roads $639,000,000, or 95% of last year's net operating income. One-third of U. S. railroads are already bankrupt and others hard-pressed to meet their fixed charges alone. Said Railway Age: "Unless the series of developments now rapidly tending to bankrupt virtually the entire railway system of the U. S. is immediately arrested, the American people may suddenly awaken to a realization that government ownership and operation of railways have become almost or actually unavoidable...
...Bankrupt. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, 67, General Overseer of Zion City, Ill.; with liabilities of more than $1,000,000, assets of between $600,000 and $800,000; in Chicago. Overseer Voliva, who eats Brazil nuts and buttermilk and believes the world is shaped like a soup-plate, has been trying to salvage his Zion Institutions and Industries Inc.-candy bar, cookie and lace factories, cement plant, bakery, bank, department store and publishing house-since 1933. Its assets were 87? in 1907, $10,000,000 in 1927, $6,000,000 in 1932. Subsequently Rev. Voliva tried to reorganize Zion Industries under...
...revenge, tries to enjoin Wendy from appearing in Curson's dress show; a ballroom scene where Wendy wins the prize with a Curson creation, having effectively removed her nearest rival by unraveling her dress; a grand finale in which Curson, using the sets from his wife's bankrupt stage show, puts on a musical dress revue which snatches his own business from disaster's verge...
...last year, and of Laughlin Filter Corp., a small New Jersey company which manufactures centrifuges. In 1928 Mr. Hammond and Philadelphia's Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Diddle Jr. were among the directors of Acoustic Products Co., which later became Sonora Products Corp. of America. When Sonora went bankrupt and Irving Trust Co. became its receiver, that Manhattan bank charged that Sonora's directors had personally used an option owned by the. company to buy De Forest Radio Co. stock for 50? a share, then selling the stock at market prices and pocketing fat profits. Harris Hammond and three...