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...Mitchell, 78, onetime top financier who lost an estimated fortune of $30 million in 1929, disclosed in testimony before the Senate Currency and Banking Committee in 1933 that he owed the U.S. Government $850,000 in back taxes; of a circulatory ailment; in Manhattan. Mitchell refused to declare himself bankrupt, as an investment banker (Blyth & Co.) made a startling financial comeback which enabled him to pay off his reported $12 million debts...
...brothers Louis and Dave started in to make toys themselves. They bought the dies for Zippo and the Coon Jigger after Strauss had gone bankrupt. The monkey and the minstrel had been on the market for more than 20 years, but Marx gave them bright new colors, brought out bigger models, and sold 8,000,000 of each. By the time he was 26, Marx was a millionaire and convinced that, in the toy industry, there is nothing new under the sun. To prove his point, he brought Zippo back this year, redesigned, rechristened (Jocko) and repriced...
...special interest groups get control of these lands the West will be bankrupt in less than a generation," DeVoto predicted. "The problem is that of preserving the West, not just the beauty of the forests. If the West goes bankrupt, so will the rest of the country," he said...
...support program "should have a longer trial." Louisiana Democrat Allen J. Ellender, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, says that a return to 90% supports "would not stand a ghost of a chance to pass the Senate." Ezra Benson has a label for the old 90% plan: "a bankrupt program...
...rapidly winning a place. For example, Our World, one of the glossiest Negro magazines, has frequently featured articles on Negro life in Africa and other parts of the world. Last week, after dropping nearly 100,000 circulation since its 1952 peak of 251,599, Our World Publishing Co. went bankrupt...