Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hudson River Night Line used to carry some 200,000 passengers. 20,000 automobiles, 175,000 tons of freight annually between New York and Albany before it went bankrupt. Its four passenger ships are the finest of their kind afloat. The Berkshire, world's largest river steamer, accommodates 2.400 passengers, has 413 staterooms. Night liners take 12 hours to cover their 160-mile route. Last week Buyer Rosoff promised to build "swell new boats," put the line on its sea-legs...
...benefited nothing directly from the education which he, with idealistic and generous endowers, have paid for. Like certain types of preferred stock, the tutorial system is attended to only after all other issues. Sometimes the residue is very slight, or zero, but at least the firm does not go bankrupt...
...Since the War Peers and Peeresses going bankrupt have averaged seven per year, but efforts to keep them out of jail nearly always succeed and no Peer or Peeress was in jail last week. In February 1934 His Grace the Duke of Leinster barely escaped incarceration by paying his irate tailor...
...ancestral estates have always had more honors than cash behind them. The pair spent their honeymoon in a Lake Ontario log cabin. Lord Edward returned to serve gallantly through the War with the Irish Guards, go bankrupt in 1918 owing ?300,000. Already separated from his chorus girl Duchess, he succeeded to the Dukedom in 1922. To recoup his fortunes the Duke of Leinster sold stock in himself as "The Dukedom of Leinster Estates, Inc." The Duchess fell in love with a 26-year-old cook named Stanley Williams...
Despite Der Reichsführer's confident Motor Show oration, Nazi economic policy, now managed by "Economic Dictator" Dr. Hjalmar Schacht stood revealed last week as bankrupt on the showing of Germany's latest official trade statistics. With Dr. Schacht puffing and straining to swell exports, they collapsed in January to a record low volume for the Century, excepting the War and inflation periods. With Dr. Schacht wrenching and squeezing to strangle imports, they swelled last month to the highest figure in three years. The Fatherland's trade deficit for January, 104,900,000 marks, was worst...