Word: bankrupt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deflation. In Syracuse, N.Y., Carrie Treasure asked to be declared bankrupt...
...crash did not exactly give Braden a social conscience; it awakened one. Dinted but by no means bankrupt, he did some heavy thinking which later led ex-Attorney General Homer Cummings to say: "Braden just couldn't help convincing himself that he was a progressive...
Last week, after thirteen and a half years' work, Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. finally came to the end of the incredibly complicated financial web of forgeries, theft, fraudulent bookkeeping, and companies which existed only in Kreugers imagination. As trustee of the bankrupt International Match Corp., an American concern and biggest of 140-odd subsidiaries of the huge holding company, A/B Kreuger & Toll; Irving Trust submitted its final, 171-page report on its stewardship. The box score...
...long run, Filipino businessmen knew that reconstruction is more a political than an industrial problem. Will the U.S. advance funds to shore up the bankrupt Philippine Treasury and grant long-term credits for the purchase of machinery? More important, will Philippine independence, scheduled for June 1, 1946, mean that the U.S. will throw up a tariff wall against the import of sugar, tobacco and other products into the U.S. market? If this happens, many a Filipino businessman feels that reconstruction will be impossible...
...bought 18 pairs of size 11 socks. To Eddie, who hadn't won a pot in the poker game, he chuckled: "I thought you'd need this sale, after what we did to you last night." Then, recalling the dark day in 1922 when they had gone bankrupt, he asked, "How's business, anyhow...