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...Minister Molotov). "The fascist Tito's clique is a gang of British-American hired spies and murderers ... a despicable band of traitors and betrayers of their motherland" (Nikita Khrushchev). "The workers have long since discerned the vile and repulsive snout of the Belgrade deserter, hireling, spy and murderer, bankrupt fascist traitor." (Literary Gazette...
...Holliday, who dreamed of running a railroad into the great Southwest to replace the prairie schooner. By 1890 he and a succession of strong-willed presidents had battled Indians, buffalo and rival railroaders to build or buy 9,000 miles of track. In 1894 the overextended Santa Fe went bankrupt and was picked up by Railroader Edward Ripley, who added 2,000 more miles of track by 1920, quadrupled the gross and put the company in a strong financial position. Thus the Santa Fe rolled smoothly through the Depression, paid dividends on its common stock almost every year...
...bomb survivors who offered their services free, Hiroshima originally contained so many gruesome horrors and so anti-American a line that Japan's Education Ministry protested. No reputable distributor would agree to handle it, and the left-wing company that finally took it over has since gone bankrupt...
...with the cost of a series of shots estimated at $7, the Department would go bankrupt if it tried to provide everyone with free vaccine," he added...
Even in the gloomy days of 1941, Anthony Eden had described the Germany required for orderly Europe. Said Eden: "It is not part of our purpose to cause Germany to collapse economically. I say that not out of any love for Germany, but because a starving and bankrupt Germany in the midst of Europe would poison all of us who are her neighbors. That is not sentiment. It is common sense." But at Yalta, Eden admitted that "there had yet been no [British] Cabinet discussions" on plans for postwar Germany...