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...ground for every one in the air, it is clear that the Nazis have been dipping heavily into that pile for the last twelve months. Some calculators in London, watching Germany's desperate effort to ward off the mounting Allied air offensive, estimate that the Luftwaffe would be bankrupt of fighters long before Christmas, that it is almost out of them now. If the calculations were correct, this was the best news of the week...
...better able to replace planes, although he had not shown any ability to increase their strength. Bankrupt of first-rate personnel, he was just able to balance his books on materiel...
...years to get an A. P. franchise. Moreover, the fee (10% of the assessments that A. P. members in the locality have paid since 1900) is so stiff that a new member in the New York City morning field (unless he could buy an A. P. franchise from a bankrupt paper) would have to pay the other A. P. members $800,000 to get the service. This was the richest example the Government could offer; others might not show so great a disparity...
...filling-station handout. Ten years ago he bought the rights to the New York Sun's famed Christmas editorial, "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus," gets a royalty each time it is reprinted. When his lumber deals began to pile up a neat fortune, he bought a bankrupt professional football club, the New York Yankees, which shuddered a bit, then died all over. But his dream since boyhood was a big-league baseball club...
Childs, as a going concern, is worth a lot more than Childs as a bankrupt estate, to be parceled up among creditors. Its earnings for the first quarter of this year were $173,000, twice the net for the whole of 1942. But, bankrupt or no, Childs's 80 restaurants in the U.S. and Canada will probably still go right on serving the 60? special (plus cocktail) to millions of thirsty, hungry quick-lunchers...