Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maybe WBMS can continue its new popular music programs and make enough money to pay off its staggering debt. More probably it will sink. If it does, the reputedly cultured Boston listeners will be largely to blame. Obviously WBMS did not have as tolerant and intelligent a body of listeners as Martin Bookspan thought...
...compensate for winning numbers taken by an agent which cut down his monthly take, the syndicate pays him ten percent more than he owes to his winners. So long as he keeps out of debt, the numbers agent averages 10 to 15 percent of the total money bet with...
...H.D.C. began to get extravagant, and the cost of putting on plays began to soar. The Dramatic Club went deeper and deeper in debt...
...members sold their own blood to make money and put on a series of memorable productions (including Saint Joan and Henry IV). But high production costs put even some of these shows in the red. By last year the H.T.W. turned pro and moved to Brattle Hall, leaving the debt-ridden H.D.C. as the College's only major serious dramatic organization until the formation of the H.T.G. under the Brattle Theatre's guidance this year...
Historians of World War II may yet recognize their great debt to British Prime Minister Clement Attlee. By enforcing a measure of leisure on Winston Churchill, Mr. Attlee has probably hastened the progress of the finest single contribution so far to the history of the war. The Grand Alliance is the third and longest volume of Churchill's war memoirs and covers the year 1941. It seems to be more hurriedly written, as if against time, but it brings that critical year stirringly alive, conveys with enormous authority and engaging candor its crushing despair and growing hopes...