Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more hopeful note, the letter continued: "I have no possibility of sending any money for this subscription; nevertheless, I suppose that it will come a happier time, when I shall be able to send my subscription fee regularly and also pay my debt for those past years...
...foreign economic domination of Canada are largely dispelled by the government's survey. Although big U.S. investments are coming into the country, Canada's international debtor position is steadily improving. In 1926 Canadians owed $6 abroad for every $1 of their external assets. Today the external debt has shrunk to about $2 for every dollar of assets outside the country...
...John J. Pershing to head off into the dawn wearing the cap of a Western Union boy. At the end of the McLean regime in 1933, the Washington Post was a paper celebrated in song (by John Philip Sousa's march bearing its name) but $600,000 in debt for newsprint for its shrunken circulation...
...THOUSAND times a day. U.S. jukeboxes moaned out Sixteen Tons, a Tin Pan Alley folk song about a coal miner who is soul-deep in debt to his employer. The song landed with a sixteen-ton impact because of its tootling orchestration and Tennessee Ernie Ford's richly lugubrious style. To the jukebox generation the words were all but meaningless. Yet, as late as the 1920s, the ballad's bitter plaint was a real-life refrain to millions of U.S. workers from Georgia's green-roofed cotton villages to Oregon's bleak lumber settlements. Those workers...
Mild-mannered Frank Zeidler behaves more like a conservative burgomaster than a doctrinaire Socialist. He has kept Milwaukee's bonded debt among the nation's lowest, kept its administration almost entirely clear of his fellow Socialists, once refused a council-voted increase in his own salary. He has shown a normal concern for racial problems -which are slight in Milwaukee with a Negro community numbering about 31,000 in a metropolitan population of nearly 1,000,000. Zeidler has created a human rights commission, plumped hard for public housing in Negro districts, and in 1952 (after a maniac...