Word: receivershipped
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...invited voters to send him all their personal complaints. He hammered away at inflation, proposed a "voluntary" price-control plan. Governor Shannon still figured to win. Chester Bowles's ambition was to pile up a vote impressive enough to give him a share in taking over the receivership of the Democratic Party...
Tuckered Tucker. Though Preston Tucker said he had made only 28 cars, he still had $8,446,206 in current assets (against $2,237,402 current liabilities), he told a U.S. district court in Chicago, in a stockholder's suit for receivership. But the biggest listed asset turned out to be $3,649,770 in promissory notes which Tucker dealers had signed to buy franchises. He listed only $1,888,749 in cash and Government bonds left, out of the approximate $20 million he had raised on stock and franchises...
...four war years the railroads earned, according to Franklin Roosevelt, "the gratitude and admiration of the entire American people." They also earned a fat $2,893,000,000 profit that hauled many a road out of receivership and is now paying for its postwar re-equipment program. If Tom Clark won his suit, many a road would be threatened with bankruptcy...
...Bluff, Calif., a crowd hurried to the United States Brewing Corp. plant with pitchers and jugs. Because the company was in receivership, a federal judge had ordered 124,000 gallons of beer drained off into the Sacramento River...
...real questions for the Democrats now were who would inherit the receivership of the party, and who would be charged with the job of rebuilding for 1952? Those questions would not be decided at the convention. But rebellious Southerners were still threatening to hold their long-planned Birmingham meeting to discuss the future ownership of the party. That new struggle would occupy the efforts of wrangling Democratic politicos for the next four years...