Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edwards (Breakfast at Tiffany's), and he is completing negotiations for another film, as yet untitled. that will be directed by Robert Rossen (The Hustler ). But if. by some improbable fiscal catastrophe, all the things he has going for him should come crashing down, if CBS should go bankrupt and his $100,000 a year be cut off. if Hollywood should evaporate, and the $650,000 house in Peekskill were to float away on the little stream it straddles, Jackie Gleason would still have a way to stay solvent. Since the age of 13, he has had something...
...argument was anathema to Freeman. The scrapping of federal farm supports and controls, he said, would be "disastrously destructive of our farm economy and our small-town businesses all over America. Millions of farmers would be forced to quit. The principal survivors would be corporations that could buy up bankrupt farms and stay in business only because they would be few enough to enforce a managed scarcity and could limit supply to quantities that would bring a profit...
...Congo operation, $7.9 million toward the Middle East force. Against a grand total of $181.1 million U.S. contributions (including technical assistance and relief), Russia has paid or pledged only $12 million-or about 7% of what the U.S. has contributed. As a result, the U.N. is again practically bankrupt, its books showing debts of $107 million on the regular budget and the cost of the Middle East and Congo operations...
...Christmas. Heppenstall's The Greater Infortune concerns a Scot named A. W. Leckie who goes bankrupt, settles in London with his incredibly cheerful wife Alison, and begins to subsist on handouts from a rich homosexual. He goes partying with a congeries of unlovable eccentrics, such as the frail and balding Gabriel Fantl, who was "reputed to have more women by the month than any known man,'' elderly Effie, who had three ghosts (a poltergeist, Thomas De Quincey, and a half-man, half-beast), and Flora Massingham, "as fat and pink as a pig at Christmas," who took...
...brought round to his bourgeois salvation by the advent of Alison's baby and World War II. Registering for military service, he wondered what to put down as his profession. "I thought to put 'gentleman,' but decided that I did not look the part. 'Bankrupt?' Accurate, but liable to cause prejudice. By what had I kept myself alive for the greater part of my adult life? By faith. Faith and appeal to motherly instinct in the middle-aged . . . Evidently I had no profession...