Word: bankrupt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. John Joseph ("Jack") Dunne, 57, beer baron of the Dry Decade; during an operation; in Jersey City. Dunne kept a number of giant Jersey breweries running during Prohibition, bootlegged his way to a $15 million fortune, discreetly retired in 1930 when gangstering got too hot for him, went bankrupt eleven years later...
Cried the New York Daily News: "It is comparable to the piratical prices the British-Dutch rubber cartels used to charge for their products. This stickup game is going on . . . at a time when we are . . . straining plenty of nerves, including financial ones, to keep Great Britain from going bankrupt." What had caused the News to sound its A was the price of cocoa. Some U.S. chocolate manufacturers and traders on New York's cocoa exchanges were just...
...arena for this performance, an aged novel has been unearthed from the shelves of some bankrupt circulating library, its cover has been dusted, and its plot has been transmitted to celluloid. The utterly fantastic doings somehow involve the wife of a Breton fisherman (Garson), who takes up with a nasty friend of her supposedly dead husband. But of course, just as she is about to marry the friend, (after four reels of indecision), the husband shows up and the two men have the customary brawl on the customary cliff-top. You have but one guess who it is that falls...
...Antonio. Last week, the line's young (26) president, Earl F. Slick, who is also president of Independent Airfreight Association, laid the independents' case before the President's Air Policy Commission. "If this rate goes through," he warned, "we'll all be bankrupt in six months...
...York, practically bankrupt when he took office, was a sound and stable concern when he left. During his twelve years, New York built a new city prison, 67 schools, 262 playgrounds, 14 vast housing projects, two hospitals, great stretches of parkway, the Triborough and Bronx-Whitestone Bridges, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. It bought and consolidated its subway and surface transportation systems, built miles of new underground rail lines. But he had given the city more than material benefits; he had stamped on the serpent of municipal corruption until it moved only faintly; he had proved that "reform mayors" need...