Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debt-ridden New York City, the big Wall Street investment firms have always looked good for another tax touch. Since 1948, Wall Street firms have been paying 2/5 of 1% on their gross income in taxes. On July 1, the bite was raised...
...over who was to pay it. Mrs. Mars fell sick and once again her husband asked for duty in Britain. The Admiralty sent him to Hong Kong. His living allowance there failed to cover even the single hotel room he had been able to rent. Mars went deeper in debt and openly cursed all governments. At last, he himself fell ill and was sent back to England to the hospital...
...time he recovered, Mars was so deeply in debt that he asked the Admiralty for leave. The request was turned down. When Mars was ordered to report for duty at Portsmouth Harbor, he sat down and wrote a letter to his superiors, refusing the command, requesting his retirement and venting all his pent-up spleen. "I do not wish to plague My Lords with a mass of detail mainly repugnant to them," he wrote. "It should be sufficient to say that I have lost faith in the present governmental hierarchy and all that goes with it. Also I have never...
...Mighty Debt. But the old holdup preyed on his conscience. Because of Hugh, who might have faced a murder charge, he kept silent for four decades. But when his brother died two years ago, Charley began settling his affairs. Then he told the Governor of Wyoming: "I have no incentive ... to continue this life of shame ... I am ready to pay my debt to society . . . [although Hugh and I] paid a mighty sum in remorse, tears, lonesomeness and regret." Last week, 62-year-old Charley Whitney pleaded guilty to bank robbery in a district court at Kemmerer...
...Equals Seven. Stark and Herlihy acknowledge their debt to Ralph Edwards, the first of the folksy, sincere-type announcers (the most successful: Arthur Godfrey). They are also uneasily aware that fashions change in announcers, as in everything else. For a while, TV was threatened by an invasion of women announcers-e.g., Betty Furness, Wendy Barrie and Singer Dorothy Collins. But Herlihy says: "Sponsors have found that the average woman listener would rather get her information from a man. Women will watch Betty Furness selling a refrigerator, but what they're thinking is 'I wonder where Betty...