Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Truman and the nine Congressmen against the Rankin ("Veteran's Grab") Bill [TIME, Oct. 1] . . . No veteran wants to be treated as a member of a select group; if his country's cause is just, the veteran does not feel that his country is in debt to him for having served...
...company, they made some shocking discoveries. Hadacol's $3,600,000, 15-month profit had somehow mysteriously turned into a $1.8 million second-quarter loss. Worse, they charged that LeBlanc had 1) concealed $2,000,000 of unpaid bills and a tax debt of $656,151 to the Government, 2) falsified Hadacol's records to show $2,272,000 of "accounts receivable" which, in large part, did not exist...
Wine from Lisbon. Pastoral, warm, gracious-so flowed life in Mt. Vernon. Washington overextended himself in land and fell in debt for a while. But he skillfully rotated his crops at Mt. Vernon, grew wheat when others were growing tobacco, and kept on prospering. He was able to ride in a coach & six and to lay down in his cellar pipes of fine Madeira and the "best Lisbon wine...
...years after its encounter with Jackson, Frederick was threatened with the torch by Confederate General Jubal Early, bought him off by putting up $200,000 in ransom money which the town borrowed in haste from five local banks. Ever since, Frederick's taxpayers have been paying off the debt. Last week, with a final installment of $20,000, Mayor Donald Rice paid the last of the ransom. ¶ In Los Angeles, James and Harry Kazan ian had a 1,318-carat sapphire, valued at about $250,000, carved into the likeness of Abraham Lincoln. The Kazanjians, who plan...
...than travel expenses for one trip a year. If the Band isn't actually the main drawing card at these games, it at least shares the gridiron honors equally with the men in padding. As a matter of plain fact, the H.A.A. and the College owe the Band a debt of gratitude...