Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major had always been a somber, selfish man. But after his retirement from the British army in 1942, he also became moody, bad-tempered and depressed. At 55, he was deep in debt and drinking too much. He had delusions that he was being persecuted, and talked of suicide...
...being a "good angel" to backward people (see above). Few countries in the world are more backward than Syria. Her people work the land with wooden plows as they did centuries ago; crops in even the best years barely provide subsistence living. Most peasants are sharecroppers, chronically in debt to moneylenders. Yet, potentially, Syria is a rich land, well able to support twice her present population. Proper irrigation would double her arable land. U.N. experts have drawn up plans for a pilot irrigation project: with $15 million Syria could drain the vast Ghab marshes, divert the surplus water for irrigation...
...said Senator Tobey, had conspired to put through the second bankruptcy so that the B. & O. could put off paying its RFC debt until 1965. Tobey charged that B. & O. officials had feared that the Democrats might lose the 1944 election and new RFC officials might not be as cooperative as Jones and his men, so they wanted to get everything set ahead of time...
...Baron Beaverbrook, 72 this week. The Beaver, Britain's No. 1 newspaper lord, likes it that way. He seldom comes home, moreover, without bearing gifts for his pet philanthropy, the University of New Brunswick (total so far: $1,500,000), where he himself was once a brilliant, tippling, debt-ridden, poker-playing law student...
...history of Harvard investment follows the economic pattern of a developing America. Harvard grew up with the country and helped it grow. When its investment in the Middlesex Canal had to be written off as a "Doubtful and Desparate Debt" because a newfangled steam railroad took all the business, Harvard moved fast to keep up with the changing times. It bought railroad bonds. As the New England textile industry grew up in its backyard, it saw another opportunity: such big companies as Pacific