Word: lost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Damage Control. Despite Harry Truman's hasty efforts at damage control, the Fair Deal had all but lost steerageway, and Truman knew it. The truth was that though he had a partisan majority...
...University could conceivably bring a civil action to get back the money it lost, by attaching the King's salary from Collier's. More than 30 years' interest added to the $678.67 might make it worth a try. Maybe endow a small chair in Criminology...
...chain of seven small-town stores and Butler Bros., largest U.S. wholesaler of general merchandise and also operator of 170 retail stores. Neither the Herberger hustle nor the magic of the Du Pont name could get the oldtime profits out of the 62-year-old company. Instead, Butler Bros, lost $4.3 million before tax carrybacks in 1947, squeezed out a small profit last year, but dropped $287,632 in 1949's first quarter. Its stock fell fcom 15 to 7 in two years...
Last week, inspecting the result, a San Francisco dowager harrumphed to a clerk: "If I had a million dollars, I'd give it all to restore Gump's as it was." Gump's would have politely turned her down; what it had lost in atmosphere it had gained in sales appeal. By regrouping its Oriental collection in informal rooms with movable display cases, Gump's hoped to sell twice as much...
Long Shot. In Philadelphia, several days, after Bernard Goodis had lost a full ($32) wallet, he got it back empty in the mail, with a note: "I put your money on a horse; if it pays off I will return your...