Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game leg and a good press. As president and general manager of Eastern Air Lines, he was one of the shrewdest, toughest, most highly admired and ferociously damned of U.S. businessmen, and the only living human soul who had ever been able to wring consistent profits from that debt-ridden peacock of modern transport, the airline industry...
...company went broke in 1926, leaving Rickenbacker a quarter of a million dollars in debt. He was 36, married (to Adelaide Frost, ex-wife of the late millionaire racing driver Cliff Durant) and had a son. But he could not bear the thought of going into bankruptcy. He resolved to pay off the huge debt (he eventually did-"It made me feel right"). Then he raised $700,000 more, and bought the Indianapolis Speedway...
Signature Magazine officially fell into the receivership of the Radcliffe Student Council at yesterday's Council meeting and will publish its farewell issue under a special committee in a final effort to decrease its $600 debt...
...tasteful theatrical ham. But the grand-mannered role is so patently written to be played across footlights that, before the lifelike intimacy of the camera, even a technically flawless performance by Robert Donat fails to inspire belief. Usually an adept dramatic craftsman, Scripter Rattigan also runs up a debt to his audience that he never pays. The Winslow boy is finally cleared, but the movie fails to clear up the mystery of how such a volume of seemingly damning evidence came to be lodged against...
...casts Raymond Massey as a leering sadist at the head of a shady gold mine worked by bums and brigands who have nowhere else to go but jail. Into his clutches come Dane Clark and Ruth Roman, two fugitives from justice. Before they can get away to square their debt to society, Massey maltreats not only most of the cast but also some lines from Shakespeare, whose Richard III he idolizes and emulates. In the end, the screen fills up with enough blood-splotched corpses (in Technicolor) to make Richard III look like a Quaker. By that time. Bar ricade...