Word: bankrupted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hero is strapping, serious-minded André Brelet, son of a bankrupt shipbuilder, who as a last resort takes a job as an Abbey guide. His wife Laura is the spoiled daughter of a bankrupt millowner, sullen, snobbish, shallow, a shrewish jade from her blonde head to her painted toes...
...Result: unless the Interstate Commerce Commission closes its eyes to the facts, and certifies to the RFC that the hard-pressed roads can repay loans made to them (the necessary requisite for RFC loans), it is highly likely that within a few months most U. S. railroads will be bankrupt...
...Passed the Chandler Bankruptcy Bill amending the Federal Bankruptcy Law. notably to allow: 1) bankrupt individuals as well as corporations to have their debts adjusted downward in a Federal court, 2) SEC to intervene in corporate reorganizations; sent it to the President...
...blacked. The captain tried to choke the mate; the crew refused to work; the general manager fired the captain and, when the Yukoner finally reached Dawson next summer, the crew-learned that the gold rush had shifted to Nome (2,000 miles behind them), that the company had gone bankrupt. They were all jailed for piracy...
...commercial models could be driven standing up; even that did not help. Last year the company subsided into 77B, trustees began casting about for reorganization plans acceptable to two-thirds of the creditors. Last week Federal Judge Robert Baltzell gave it up as hopeless, declared Stutz bankrupt...