Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three years of mismanagement by an increasingly corrupt military dictatorship has brought the Republic of Colombia to the brink of economic chaos. Despite good coffee prices and a bumper crop, Colombia is in debt by over 350 million dollars, more than its entire income from coffee exports for the first eight months of 1956. Her currency has depreciated, her credit has been seriously damaged, and her foreign exchange reserves reduced to a dangerously low level...
...stockholders in the world's biggest moviemaking company chose up sides in the most colossal management fight in Hollywood history. The prize: control of Loew's Inc., which encompasses Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, M-G-M Records, some 170 U.S. and foreign theaters, plus a $33 million funded debt. To head off the battle, Joseph Vogel, Loew's president of three weeks, flew from his Manhattan office to Hollywood, hustled through the first leg of a monthlong, no-martini inspection, promised to find out what was wrong...
...Newsreels. After decades of benevolent but bumbling overgovernment, Uruguay is troubled with chronic inflation, swelling government debt, softening currency, and a tendency to break out in strikes as workers restively try to keep up with the cost of living. As a result, Communism has made some surface gains. About 100,000 Montevideo workers belong to unions that are dominated or influenced by Reds. Keeping up a strenuous cultural-penetration drive, the Soviet Union donates film shorts to the government, free newsreels to movie houses. Red propaganda has convinced an apparent majority of Montevideans that increased trade with the Communist bloc...
...sleep. There is, however, a recognizable limit to what may be learned by means of drinking." Furthermore, he adds, "I squandered a great deal of money that I earned as a writer and I lost a lot of it gambling." As a result, "I am head over heels in debt. I expect to get out of debt by writing or not at all. I have no savings account, no stocks, or bonds, no real estate, no insurance, no cash ... I simply have got to hustle for a living...
...important Mickey Mouse daytime TV program are considerably below those of last year." Actually, Kintner has had his troubles ever since Paramount Theatres took over cash-short ABC in a $25 million stock-swapping deal three years ago. Paramount then paid off ABC's $7,662,000 debt, put in a handful of Paramount executives, including three new ABC vice presidents. Two of them later resigned, one after he lost $1,800,000 for the company by programming college football games that got few sponsors. But Parent Paramount grumbled that Kintner never allowed ABC's Paramount...