Word: bankrupt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easy task to decide on the form renewal should take. To surrender to either group of vested interests would have made enemies of the other. In addition he had a third group to satisfy, businessmen who believe that if a business writes its own ticket it will soon bankrupt the economic railroad on which it is traveling. What good, they ask, does it do a business to fix prices or restrict production if high prices ruin its market...
...Improve statutory procedure for reorganizing bankrupt railroads...
...Danville, Va., operators of a "numbers'' game were bankrupt when the whole town took seriously a Pullman porter's dream that the number 805 was sure...
Exactly a year ago tall, dark George Marshall, without a speck of publishing experience, was put in charge of the Times. He began life as a smalltime vaudeville hoofer. During the War his father died, left him a bankrupt laundry. From it Son George built the most successful laundry business in Washington, with 50 gaudy blue-&-gold branch stores on strategic street corners, each blazoning the slogan "Long Live Linen...
...offered to put him in touch with Great Red Exile Leon Trotsky. "From Capitalistic darkness," editorialized the official newsorgan Pravda, "comes the stench which Kirov's murderers breathed!" According to Pravda, the leaders of the Trotsky faction accused in the case are "prostituted scoundrels, arrant blackguards, cowards, traitors, bankrupt politicians, deserters, outcasts of the human race and thrice accursed...