Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DEBT LOAD has mounted to $4,650 for every American. U.S. Chamber of Commerce figures total Government, corporate, individual debt is more than $769 billion, but says it is no danger as long as prosperity stays high...
...been no more unusual than severe headaches or mild blackouts, but that afternoon she recounted a weirdly disturbing episode: one day, of which she had no recollection, she must have gone out and bought a lot of flashy clothes-enough to put her and her husband Ralph in debt for years. The evidence was in her closet...
...rueful self-pity. But after this pleasant diversion, the will is a nasty shock. Out of the million-dollar estate, Good-Time Charlie gets only a gold watch, some books and a few bottles of wine-not much use to a man who is unemployed, $12,000 in debt, and threatened with jail because of a bad check...
When Rackley arrived at Jessop Steel, he found an obsolete, junk-filled plant among tall weeds at the edge of town with a $4,100,000 debt, only $7,000 in the bank and 600 sullen workers demanding $300,000 in back wages...
...plant, new modern equipment, 1,300 employees. Its sales last year climbed above the $25 million mark. The 1950 RFC loan was retired in 16 months; a subsequent $1,000,000 loan from the Bank of New York was paid off in full last month, and Jessop now is debt-free...