Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Morgan's Passing, Anne Tyler...
...satisfy creditors and still keep their multibillion-dollar empire intact, the brothers, heirs to the estate of Texas Oilman H.L. Hunt, have been forced to arrange for a stupefying $1.1 billion line of credit from a consortium of twelve banks headed by Morgan Guaranty and First National Bank in Dallas. In return for the money, the banks have demanded as collateral just about everything of value that the Hunts still own. The resulting listing of mortgaged properties, which runs to more than 350 pages of securities, real estate, corporate holdings, art objects and even personal goods, provides a rare...
FICTION: Falling in Place, Ann Beattie Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene ∙ Life Before Man, Margaret Atwood Morgan's Passing, Anne Tyler Neighbors, Thomas Berger Preparations for the Ascent, Gilbert Rogin ∙ The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five, Doris Lessing
...worlds, she says, provided room for creative outlet and both were fiercely competitive. "I was surprised how much I liked Solomon Brothers," she says, adding, "I began to realize that I could do more than one thing well." Solomon Brothers has many more minority employees than a place like Morgan Guaranty she says, adding that besides unconventional hiring policies, Solomon encourages unconventionally risky investments...
...silver and how deeply they went into debt during the silver crash. The brothers' foggy memory on some of these points last Friday caused sharp exchanges with Subcommittee Chairman Benjamin Rosenthal. When asked about his total wealth, Bunker Hunt replied in a manner that recalled J.P. Morgan's famous quote that people who have to ask the cost of the annual upkeep of yachts cannot afford them. Said he: "I don't have the figures in my head. People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much...