Word: defaulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later she decided to default that match as well. She explained: "In the third set of my singles match I felt as if I were going to faint because of pain in my back and hip and a complete numbness of my right leg. The match was long and by defaulting I do not wish to detract from the excellence of Miss Jacobs' play. I feel that I have spoiled the finish of the national championship and I wish I had followed the advice of my doctor and returned to California...
...Government loans to farmers, invoked this old legal provision against Secretary Wallace's Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Farmers owed the Government $139,335,742 for seed, feed and crop production purposes. They owed local agricultural credit corporations another $70,982,175, more than half of which had been in default for years. Of the $64,204, 300 borrowings in 1932, $42,740,721 remains unpaid. Governor Morgenthau figured that crop bounties offered a fine chance to balance his books, get farmers out of debt to the Government...
Immediate reason for default was that the operating deficits of two and a half years have cut the company's working capital from $12,600,000 to $6,000,000. Directors feared to impair it further by paying $800,000 in interest due Aug. 1. The able president (now receiver) Arthur Roeder (procured in 1929 from American Linseed Co.) will have a tough job to bring the company around the corner in time to refund $27,000,000 of bonds falling due a year hence. Saints have their crosses, the Rockefellers have Colorado Fuel & Iron...
...Stevens, F. L. Woodman defeated J. F. Riesman, W. H. Clark defeated A. D. Baldwin, D. S. Davis defeated F. W. Baldwin, and Ellis Jandron defeated Robert Schafor. In the quarter-finals, Lazar triumphed over Rottenberg, 6-3, 6-2. Booth got a win from Mitchell by default; Woodman downed Clark in a stirring battle, 8-6, 7-5; and David took over Jandron...
...state, municipal and local government debts, $1,000,000,000 is today in default not counting another large slice not yet technically so listed. Not less than 410 cities and towns have defaulted on their bonds. This is not a bad record compared to industry's defaults, but it is a nasty record considering the fact that cities, unlike industries, have legal authority to collect revenue in bad times as well as good...