Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon reading the Allies' demands on Germany for Reparations, he said: "If they are to collect that much from us, the world will have to absorb our exports in quantities which will ruin their trade- something the Allies cannot permit. Therefore they cannot collect the Reparations they propose...
...must bear in mind that these are only trends, and though this is the only way we can predict the future, other influences might develop which would ruin our conclusions. Marx, for example predicted the further degradation of the working man as the number of capitalists increased and Ricardo predicted that the drift of population would be towards the country. They were both wrong obviously...
Glass-"Little banks!" Little corner grocerymen who get together $10,000 or $15,000 and then invite the deposits of their community and then at the very first gust of disaster topple over and ruin their depositors! What we need in this country are real banks and real bankers...
...almost the only thing that cinema producers had to be thankful for last week. By last fortnight, overexpansion and Depression had brought the $2,000,000,000 cinema industry, which supplies entertainment to 75,000,000 people a week in 20,000 U. S. theatres, so close to ruin that producers had begun to feel sure nothing more could happen to them. They had failed to anticipate something which was almost as disastrous to the entertainment business, dependent solely upon ready cash, as the earthquake might have been. The national bank holiday caused cinema box-office receipts to fall about...
...deus ex machine to bid Philoctetes go to Troy as the command of the gods. So Sophocles satisfied his own principle of the invincible will and at the same time followed the legend. Even in the evening of his days, which must have been shadowed by the approaching ruin of Athens, he could draw with a sure hand the hero embittered by suffering and injustice...