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Word: debt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 22, 1951 | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Hadacol Hangover | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mt. Vernon to Valley Forge | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Needed: Money | 10/6/1951 | See Source »

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