Word: bankrupt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnston,' one of our British friends argued, 'in your country you know perfectly well that your Government wouldn't permit General Motors to go bankrupt...
...Wintertime" is typical Sonja Henie fare. It has a plot--a Norweglan skater attempts to save the fortunes of a bankrupt winter resort; it has a romance--she falls in love in the process. Sonja Henie performs excellently on ice and produces pout and dimple effects...
...ground for every one in the air, it is clear that the Nazis have been dipping heavily into that pile for the last twelve months. Some calculators in London, watching Germany's desperate effort to ward off the mounting Allied air offensive, estimate that the Luftwaffe would be bankrupt of fighters long before Christmas, that it is almost out of them now. If the calculations were correct, this was the best news of the week...
...better able to replace planes, although he had not shown any ability to increase their strength. Bankrupt of first-rate personnel, he was just able to balance his books on materiel...
...years to get an A. P. franchise. Moreover, the fee (10% of the assessments that A. P. members in the locality have paid since 1900) is so stiff that a new member in the New York City morning field (unless he could buy an A. P. franchise from a bankrupt paper) would have to pay the other A. P. members $800,000 to get the service. This was the richest example the Government could offer; others might not show so great a disparity...