Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Planner Keyserling could find plenty of pat reasons for assuring the President that there was nothing to worry about in the staggering $255 billion national debt. He could find fair-sounding reasons for supporting Harry Truman's threat to break into the steel industry with Government-run plants, reasons why the President should demand new curbs over business. Such glib reasoning was too much for Dr. Nourse, but judging from last week's appointment, it was just right with Mr. Truman. Businessmen, whom Keyserling recently had been trying to win over by soft words, kept their fingers crossed...
Woman's Way. In Sydney, Australia, Maud Pracey persuaded the court to give her husband three weeks' grace on a $1,100 debt installment so she could go win the money playing the horses...
...capital investment. In a resolution approved by its 600,000 members, the Conference of American Small Business Organizations said: "There exists grave danger to our economy [in] the rapidly increasing Government loans and guarantees. These funds could better be used to help balance our budget and reduce our Government debt. Revision of tax laws can afford better benefits to all small business than credit relief or subsidies...
...York Times looked like the place. Founded in 1851 by a young (31), black-bearded politician named Henry Jarvis Raymond, who later helped found the Republican Party, the Times flourished until Raymond died. Later it went deeply into debt, by 1896 was losing more than $2,000 a week. Armed with a letter of recommendation from President Grover Cleveland (which he had obtained simply by writing the President and requesting it), Ochs went to New York and bought control of the Times for $75,000. By cutting the price from 2? to a penny, he tripled circulation in a year...
Foreclosure. In Sutton, W.Va., Hartzel Friend was held on assault charges for sinking his teeth into the hand of an obstinate debtor, hanging on until the man wrote him a check with his free hand for the $15 debt...