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...French sickness, of course, is deeper than that. Yet the old paradoxes remain: of a land fat and bankrupt; of a nation full of courageous individuals but collectively hesitant and despairing; of a nation famed for political logic and skill yet paralyzed by political anarchy...
...Vegas Story (RKO Radio] must have been easy for Jane Russell because she has done so many movies just like it. This time, Jane arrives in Las Vegas as the discontented wife of Vincent Price, a near-bankrupt broker who hopes to remake his fortune at the dice tables. To Jane, the visit is one long remembrance of things past, for it was in Las Vegas that she loved and left Victor Mature, a local policeman. In their big confrontation scene, Jane delicately dilates her nostrils and Victor clenches his jaw so hard that his ears wiggle, thus making...
...able to maintain the new meat ration" (16? worth a week). Gloomiest of all was Chancellor of the Exchequer R. A. Butler, whose painful lot it was to propose a new national belt-tightening in Parliament. Warned "Rab" Butler: "We face the risk of being bankrupt, idle and hungry." To weather the storms, at home & abroad, Britain needed Churchill at his bulldog best...
...after Barcelona Traction had been charged with "irregularities," such as smuggling out capital in violation of the freeze, March struck the death blow, got Franco's courts to declare Barcelona bankrupt. Since Heineman's group held all of Barcelona's common shares in Canada, the court ordered "duplicate" shares printed in Spain. Last week's court formality at Reus was to auction off these counterfeit shares to the highest bidder. The only bidder turned out to be Juan March's lawyer, who bought control of the big utility for 10 million pesetas...
...share. Ten months later, they sold their stock back to Cohen. Their profit: $68,000 each. Cohen paid for the stock with money he borrowed from the Empire Tractor Corp. itself. Just a year after McKinney and McHale took out their 6,800% profit, the company went bankrupt. Its debts still haven't been paid...