Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line three months ago (TIME, Jan. 21), railroaders agreed that the new president would put the coughing Katy back on the tracks if anybody could. With a reputation as a savior of sick railroads, Deramus came to Katy fresh from rescuing the Chicago Great Western Railway Co. from heavy debt, hoped to do the same for Katy, whose earnings skidded 37% in 1956, and whose preferred stockholders were due $106 million in dividend arrears. In short order, Deramus trimmed the Katy's payrolls, ordered economies in everything from telephone calls to recordkeeping, even abolished his public-relations department...
...noted that the size of the national debt has declined over the last ten years by about one-half in relation to the gross national product. He criticized "unwarranted slashes of security and welfare outlays, and excessive burdens on state and local government...
...months owing to the time lag on slow-reacting items such as housing. More sensitive indexes charting the prices of wholesale goods, especially raw materials, already seemed to be tapering off or falling. And though consumers are still buying heavily, they are not so anxious to go into debt. Said Chase Manhattan Bank President George Champion: "The tendency to overextend consumer credit is beginning to right itself. Down payments have been stabilized, and maturities are no longer lengthening...
When the Wind Blows, a family tragedy by George Staples, shows serious thought, solid dramatic potential, and a great debt to Long Day's Journey Into Night. Although the cast often does not reach potential depths of character, both Ed Walsh, as the younger son who revolts, and Yvonne Korshak, as the aging but eager aunt, bring excellent consistent emotion into earnestly wrought characterizations. After her beautifully timed hula dance during dinner, the high point of the play, the stage suffers from loose writing and looser pacing. Director Lumbard lacked the experience to build through to the end; his staging...
Aisner stated that he resigned because of Smith's misrepresentations of fact, his unrealistic business judgment in continuing to increase the debt of the paper and his general attitude." Aisner said the debt of the paper at the time of his resignation was $1479.25 which, he thought, "does not coincide, in my opinion, with the representations made by Smith and his colleagues to the effect than on or about March 7, 1957, the deficit was about...