Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis John Taber, master of the National Grange, declared a 15% rate increase would complete the ruin of agriculture by taking $150,000,000 from U. S. farmers. Arthur Hale, chairman of the Coal Exporters' Association, said a 2,000,000-ton-per-year business would cease if coal rates to ocean ports were upped. The Virginia Corporation Commission sent witnesses to Washington who contended that the railroads' complaints about their credit position had done them more damage than the actual drop in their earnings...
...years in prison, $1,000 fine. They were remanded to jail without bail. The deal for which the culprits were held responsible was selected from a host of other shady practices by which the bank's officers, panic-stricken by the 1929 stockmarket crash, guided the institution to ruin. It was a game of financial ring- around-a-rosy, played as follows: Bankus Corp. and City Financial Corp., subsidiaries of the Bank of U. S., had a book value of $4,800,000 worth of real estate equities, but owed the parent organization $8.000.000. How were the subsidiaries...
...Cleveland; WENR, Chicago). His company had, he said, $17,000,000 in unfulfilled broadcasting contracts on hand. It had earned its first "small profit" last year on $20,000,000 gross business. It had leased 27 new studios in Manhattan's Radio City. A revocation of its licenses would ruin its business. Questioned by caustic Representative Frank R. Reid of Illinois, an intervener in the case, about the Delaware case, Mr. Aylesworth said: "I know very little about it. I wouldn't know a vacuum tube from an inner tube. I'm a broadcaster." Observed Representative Reid...
...fine figure of a man and came from an old English family, but he was born in Australia, never saw his native country till the death of his uncle left him the family estate. He fell in love with the place at sight, though it had fallen into wrack & ruin. Its restoration became his career. When he and his neighbor's daughter Alethea fell in love everybody except one disappointed suitor thought it was splendid. For a time everything went swimmingly. Alethea bore Nicholas a bouncing daughter, later a boy. When the boy turned out to be perfectly formed...
...National Bank of Kentucky of this city was not the result of any so-called "personal feud," alleged in the article as existing between Judge Bingham and Mr. James B. Brown, President of said Bank, nor did any such "personal feud" exist, nor did any such alleged "feud ruin great institutions, close banks or precipitate a general bankruptcy...