Word: debits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...taking note of all the rosy figures, opened on the day after election with a flurry of buying, and the Dow-Jones industrial average closed the week at 273.47, up more than three points. But the stock traders, like everyone else, realized that there are some entries on the debit side of the economy as well...
...second consecutive year, the Hygiene Department was in the debit column, taking a $25,000 loss...
...years since its founding, Illinois' tiny (239 miles) Toledo, Peoria & Western has made lots of news, most of it bad. Long known by such names as the "Tired, Poor & Weary," the T.P. & W. was twice thrown into receivership, three times sold at auction, and has to its debit one of the nation's worst railroad disasters (81 killed). After World War II, a long and bitter strike resulted in the shotgun killing of two strikers (TIME, Feb. 18, 1946). In 1947, T.P. & W.'s anti-union President George McNear Jr. was himself killed by a shotgun blast...
...debit side, Galbraith maintains that there is an "unsatisfactory distribution of the return from German recovery." The laborer is not benefiting enough from the boom and the middle Class, the savings of which were wiped out at the time of the 1948 currency reform, is also underpaid. Relatively speaking, the farmers and employers who had their wealth in the form of property in 1948 and whose goods are much in demand now are the best off in Germany...