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...billions and our goods are going into a Europe which is worse than bankrupt. It is an ill and disordered Europe, a psychotic wasteland, with certain islands of relative sanity. We should be neither surprised nor disappointed if our dollars do not heal the inner hurts of Europe...
...Five unity attending as midwife. An American move killed that chance. Palestine held out the chance for the United States to back the "third force"--the Democratic-Socialist elements in the Jewish community--and as elsewhere the United States failed that force. Ineptitude, operating within the frame of a bankrupt policy added chaos to the Middle East and once again thwarted any conclusive solution in Palestine...
Comeback. The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, once called "a bankrupt hunk of rusty junk," completed the painful climb to respectability (TIME, Feb. 17, 1947). It declared a common stock dividend-its first in 67 years, its second since it was founded...
...heard the other day went something like, "A gracious house, sure; but it must be hard to heat." "Ireland's Folly," whispered Cambridge when the seemingly pretentious building was erected, and of course they were partly right, for within two years the owner and his social-climbing wife were bankrupt, and Fay House went to Joseph McKean, the Boylston Professor of Rhetotic and Oratory...
This once popular song was not popular among long-suffering customers of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway: it seemed to them the bitterest satire. The Rock Island went formally bankrupt in 1933, after years of tottering on the verge...