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Listed among the National Education Association's major resolutions at their convention [TIME, July 19] are two items which I feel will help to further education as a profession, but which will . . . help to bankrupt the country . . . Being a teacher and a member of N.E.A., I would appreciate receiving in the neighborhood of $4,000 to $9,000 per annum. Being a taxpayer, I would appreciate some relief from heavy taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 9, 1954 | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...allies aren't ready to fight if we aren't. EDC might scrape through, more likely be blocked. The Americans and British will rearm the Germans anyway, which we will be bitter about but will accept. France will still be rich enough not to go bankrupt, or important enough so that the U.S. won't let her go bankrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Ticking of the Clock | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...summer theater production of You Can't Take It With You, Coburn lamented that he cannot even keep it while he is alive. "I have paid $1,000,000 in federal income taxes in 15 years, and yet if I am sick one year I am bankrupt," cried he, jowls atremble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 5, 1954 | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

...gone broke in 16 months, there was another crash last week. It was the biggest yet. C. B. Erwin, board chairman of General American Casualty Co., * and two other sad-faced executives walked into the Austin office of State Insurance Commissioner Garland Smith and admitted that General American was bankrupt. It was $1,000,000 in debt and unable to pay its claims. General American, which collected $6,000,000 in premiums last year, has 120,000 policyholders in Texas and nine other Southern states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: More Scandal in Texas | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...railroad." Try Research. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Perlman got his start in railroading as an engine-wiper before moving into the engineering end of the business. After a stint in the RFC's railroad division and at the Burlington, he joined the bankrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Young Takes Over | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

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