Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stocks and his movie studio. Last week the income-taxers announced that Millionaire Chaplin owes them about $1.1 million in arrears and interest. This fall a revenooer will journey to Switzerland for an unfriendly chat with Charlie. But the mission seems doomed to fail; unless Chaplin antes up the debt voluntarily (most unlikely), there is little of his left in the U.S. to grab besides some old derbies, canes and turned-up brogans...
During Reconstruction Negroes also supported provisions that liberalized the suffrage, enlarged the rights of women, abolished dueling and imprisonment for debt, reformed the organization of courts, the codes of judicial procedure and the system of county administration. Although many historians have maligned "Black Reconstruction," it clearly contributed ideas that have broadened the meaning of democracy for large numbers of Southern whites...
...Contended that the expected $1.8 billion budget surplus does not justify a tax cut, should be used instead to make "some little start on reducing this enormous [$276 billion] national debt...
...consumers are spending more for nondurable goods such as food, amusement, utilities and clothing and less on cars and other durables. While incomes have gone up, the rate of new savings is down $600 million from 1955's year-end level. In addition, notes FRB, total consumer installment debt is still rising. The seasonally adjusted rate for 1956's first quarter showed a $2.5 billion jump over 1955's first quarter, while extensions of new credit were clipping along at an annual rate of $3.3 billion higher than repayments on old installment debts. Furthermore, FRB economists...
...house surrounded by 2,400 acres, and supporting two guest cottages, a bunkhouse, a swimming pool, a tennis court and "a couple of smallish private mountains." At $10 a day per paying guest, it was so far from supporting the Hootons that after four days they were $160 in debt. To begin with, the help was a hindrance. For a wrangler, a dude ranch's jack-of-all-trades, they had Curly, "as stunning as a window dummy and every bit as bright." Curly managed to ride his horse into the reservoir, the draining of which...