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...level canal, work proceeded for seven years, could not cope with the Culebra Cut and Chagres River. The management was characterized by "corruption rarely equaled in the history of the world." In 1887 plans were changed; work started on a canal with locks. In 1889 the company went bankrupt...
...Premier) William Thomas Cosgrave, sitting as an ordinary Deputy for Cork, was re-elected President of the Executive Council by a majority of six votes. The actual votes cast were 76 for and 70 against, Capt. William Archer Redmond abstaining and James Larkin, Dublin Communist, absent as an undischarged bankrupt...
...well-dressed romance of New Orleans in 1850. There is a convent maid who tries to seduce a handsome pirate. By this stratagem she plans to evade a villianous, worm-eaten roue who, in the manner of those times, is on the point of buying her outright from a bankrupt parent. Every now and then, Alan Dinehart, acting the buskined pirate, stamps, frowns and mutters guttural imprecations, showing that the little girl from the convent is tampering with a wicked fellow. The difficulty of her position is that the buccaneer has scruples about innocent girls. But she overcomes these. Enchanted...
...secure funds to build a monoplane in Brooklyn. He taught himself to fly, set up an aviation school. During the War, he lost a contract with the British government because he did not have the money to swing it. He designed planes for a Maryland concern until it went bankrupt...
...company, under the presidency of its founder Frank A. Seiberling, was practically bankrupt. Dillon, Read & Co., who worked out the refinancing plans, had President Seiberling removed and the company placed under a management committee. This committee consisted of Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co., John Sherwin of the Union Trust Co., Cleveland, and Mr. Young. Mr. Young has been inactive as a manager, in reserve as counsellor...