Word: bankrupt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start he gave it, Pressed Steel coasted onward & upward through 30 years of prosperity, during which stockholders drew $38 million in dividends. Over the years Pressed Steel grew staid and conservative, floundered badly in the Big Depression, went bankrupt in 1933, barely survived a bitter reorganization battle, still operated at a loss...
...always sloshed triumphantly through the mud. He was elected lieutenant governor, then governor. When his second term ended, the state was all but bankrupt. But Mississippi sent him to the U.S. Senate, sent him back again in 1940. Bilbo always told the poor, ill-educated, farm-bound "peckerwoods" what they wanted to hear, the way they wanted to hear it. Few Americans since Huey Long had turned men's fear, prejudice, cupidity and hunger for drama so successfully to his own ends...
...their bankrupt country the Hungarian delegation will bring:1) a U.S. promise to restore all property removed by the Germans from Hungary after Jan. 20, 1945; 2) a U.S. promise to return, possibly by Aug. 1, Hungarian gold (approximately $32 million) now held by U.S. forces in Germany, to help stabilize Hungarian currency; 3) some hope of a $10 million credit to purchase U.S. surplus trucks, jeeps, construction material, medical supplies, food, clothing...
...first thing Boss Veeck did was to count the customers. The 8,526 who went to see the Indians beat the league-leading Red Sox were a pretty small band. But there were only 22 people in the stands the day Veeck bought the bankrupt Milwaukee Brewers in 1941. Veeck soon put his theory to work in Milwaukee: good baseball for the fans, something extra for those who aren...
...stone merely served as a backdrop for uncleared rubble, and the remnants of its once-blithe spirit were merely counterpoints to present hopelessness. Within the brief flash of 30 years, Vienna had in turn been the gay and gilded center of an empire, the outsized capital of a bankrupt rump republic, a subordinate, provincial town in Nazi Germany, and the cringing wartime scene of bombings, street fighting, burning, looting...