Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...future of man is here on earth. Artificial satellites, bound to us by earth's gravity, can be put to man's use, but let some other nation bankrupt itself playing eggheads' games in outer space...
...take home more than $130 this month. Friend of mine offered me a deal, and I think I'm going to fold this thing up and go in with him." The friend's deal: an outfit to handle merchandise from San Diego firms that go bankrupt...
...Voters: 40%. Black Africa's most headlined country has almost total ignorance of Western- style government. Only minute proportion of people even aware Congo is nation. Political parties are inexperienced and on strictly tribal lines. Westward-leaning Cyrille Adoula is ablest Premier yet, but still insecure in nearly bankrupt country...
When he was 14, his father went bankrupt, and Del hit the road two years later. "I've been on the move ever since," he says. "It gets in your blood and you can't stop." Weekdays he was a journeyman carpenter on construction jobs; weekends he played semiprofessional ball. Webb hit nails and nailed hitters all over the West, from Calgary down to the Mexican border, developing at the same time a taste for old bourbon and young ladies. During World War I, he worked in the Oakland shipyards; when it was over, he married his childhood...
...attempts to move his foundering St. Louis franchise to Baltimore-a town the Browns eventually wound up in after Veeck had been forced to sell out. "Topping was nothing if not frank," relates Veeck. "He said. 'We're going to keep you in St. Louis and bankrupt you. Then we'll decide where the franchise is going to go.'" As for Webb: "In Del's behalf, let me say that he does have a saintlike forbearance and a forgiving heart. Every year he brightens up my dreary holiday season with a warm and sentimental Christmas...