Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Thomas Bat'a's body had been embalmed the first thought of Jan Bat'a was to retrench. The Bat'a newspaper announced that the company had passed its dividend, that for the first time working partners will fail to receive their 10% return on the stock they hold. Under the Bat'a profit sharing system, half of each worker's profits has been automatically invested for him in Bat'a stock, thus making him a working partner...
...Swanson investigate and prosecute individuals and organizations engaged in "tax strikes." (They mentioned the Association of Real Estate Taxpayers as a prominent example.) They demanded that Federal District Attorney George Emmerson Q. Johnson prosecute taxpayers who claimed credit in income tax returns for local taxes not paid. Should appeals fail, the teachers promised to picket business establishments known to be delinquent in taxes. Resentfully they rejected County Treasurer McDonough's suggestion that they call on individual delinquents to collect taxes due. Said Teacher Nell W. Reeser: "The County Treasurer apparently thinks of us as a body of super-gold...
...security holders he offered $25,000,000 in first mortgage bonds of New Jersey Power & Light Co., A. G. & E. controlled. Each security-owner was expected to buy $100 worth of bonds at a 20% discount on the generous rate of $10 down and $10 monthly. Should subscriptions fail to pour in, Mr. Hopson can make a similar offer of mortgage bonds in Metropolitan Edison Co. (Pennsylvania), New York State Electric and Gas Corp., Pennsylvania Electric Co. Despite these fine plans, A. G. & E. last week lost voting control of Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. to Rochester businessmen as part...
...months before gathering at Elmira, N. Y. last week for the Third Annual National Soaring Meet, an enthusiastic little group of glider pilots had prayed that the winds of the Chemung Valley would not fail them, as they did for a fortnight last year. Perversely, on opening day last week, for the first time at an Elmira meet, the wind was too strong for soaring. Nevertheless a crowd of 28 pilots and some 300 spectators climbed Big Flats Ridge, northwest of the town...
...send us back to our home town so we can starve again," he proclaimed. "The Government isn't giving you any thing. It's lending it to you and you'll have to pay it back." His followers stiffened and the break-up seemed about to fail...