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...weapon against Iran has been the blockade. It has left the Iranians somewhat in the position of Tantalus, who was up to his neck in water but, though dying of thirst, was not able to drink it. The Iranians are up to their necks in oil but, though nearly bankrupt, they cannot sell it, because the British stop any ship that tries to carry the oil to market. The U.S. has tacitly supported the blockade; the new policy would, in fact, mean a diplomatic U.S. move...
...sophistication," she profoundly affected a generation of theatergoing young women. In Tonight at 8:30, Susan and God, Skylark and Lady in the Dark, Gertrude made as much as $5,000 a week. All the money ran through her fingers as fast as it poured in. She was declared bankrupt in England and hounded by creditors in the U.S. Somehow, she paid off everyone while managing to keep, in Coward's phrase, her "quick humor, insane generosity and loving heart...
...another-and belated-effort to do business with Mohammed Mossadegh, the wily, weepy old man of Iran. London and Washington are now much less worried by the loss of Iranian oil (mostly made up from other Middle East sources) than by the increasing danger that Iran, strife-racked, almost bankrupt, and near chaos, will topple into the Red fold. The U.S.-British offer, which had obviously cost the U.S. much diplomatic sweat and the British a lot of pride...
...glorious boyhood came to a close all too early. When he was eleven, his stern, unpractical father died a bankrupt, and after a year or so Sam was put to the printer's trade to help support the family. There was variety in the shop, all right (as when a cow wandered in one night, upset a tray of type, munched on several ink-rollers, wandered out again), but the golden days were almost over, and Sam began to wonder how he could ever get them back. Wecter's book leaves him still wondering, as he wondered...
Credit Rating. In Central Falls, R.I., when an irate burglar found no money in John Marks's store, he left a hastily scribbled note: "What! Are you bankrupt...