Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...railroad. A longtime railroader who got his start as a telegrapher, Norris had a brash air about him, a funny story for every occasion and a firm belief in the Southern's slogan: "Look ahead-look South!" But the Southern needed more than humanizing; it was deep in debt and losing money fast. Norris decided to fix that...
...plot was old when Hope was merely hopeful; he has used most of the situations himself many times before, and even the title owes a debt to one of his earlier films, 1942's My Favorite Blonde. But for all these heavy mortgages, Hope and his five writers pay a good rate of comic interest: rapid-fire gags, uproarious burleyque bits such as those that enrich Broadway's current Top Banana, and an oldfashioned, helter-skelter movie chase in which Hedy drives a fire truck through old Tangier with Hope perilously clinging to its raised ladder...
...Hard-up Britain could have avoided repayment by invoking a clause in the loan agreement allowing it to postpone interest payments. Instead it decided to dip into its dwindling gold and dollar hoard to make good its promise. The Tory government had its own good reasons for honoring the debt punctually. Winston Churchill, due to visit Washington next month, wants to sweeten up U.S. opinion before asking for a bigger share of U.S. Mutual Security funds (perhaps $300 million). "Our principle," explained a Whitehall official, "is that you should always pay your tailor promptly for the first suit...
Millions & Millions. Once in debt to the Government up to his eyeballs, Henry Kaiser has now paid off more than $244 million. Of all his enterprises, ranging from autos, cement, magnesium and steel to aluminum and houses, only his auto company, Kaiser-Frazer, is still in debt to the U.S. It owes $51 million. Kaiser has little trouble getting money from private sources. He has recently arranged for: i) a $17,-500,000 preferred-stock issue to finance the rest of his new aluminum plant, and 2) $65 million in new private financing to add a third blast furnace...
...affair with her best friend, can lie to save them when the other husband learns the truth. And-for all that she and Middleton have fallen amiably out of love-she will not herself take a lover until she earns a living, is no more in wifely debt financially than emotionally...