Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haircuts rose from $500,000 to $780,000 in a week. China's banks refused loans on anything but raw materials subject to quick sales. In Shanghai a housepainter insisted on payment in advance lest the price charged for the whole job fail to cover the cost of paint. Most salaries were geared to a monthly cost-of-living index, but the index ran hopelessly far behind prices in the spiraling race to oblivion, and China's housewives well knew that months would pass before present prices were reflected in their husbands' paychecks. Since to keep their...
Well, Hardly Ever. In Oklahoma City, salesman Never Fail filed a petition in bankruptcy...
Barring a political miracle, it was the kind of ticket that could not fail to sweep the Republican Party back into power. What kind of an administration would it bring with...
...Number One, and found it surprisingly profitable. It was, by & large, a time of easy earning and free spending. We did not know then, as we do now, that in a time of rising prices, of inflating values, you really have to be very dumb indeed to fail to make money . . . Each man took care of himself, but the sum total of all this self-reliance was that the devil not only took the hindmost but the foremost and those in between...
...could not fail to sense that Friends at Pendle Hill were infused with a true Quaker spirit, relaxed but reverent, and that in their three chief activities-worship, study and work-they were seeking solutions for three of the great problems of the age: the alienation of class from class in society, the alienation of the individual from the community, the alienation of man from...