Word: ruinously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enormous Center Theatre is a problem in itself - ideal for Ben Hur, but practically ruinous for anything else...
...awaiting trial in Paris, unsuccessfully petitioned to be allowed to join the French Army "so that I could kill some more Germans." And last week in Germany, his race had once again to pay for his crime. All during 1939 Jews in Germany have frantically sold their property at ruinous prices in efforts to pay their $400,000,000 fine. On Aug. 15 they made "final payments," but last week Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk announced that this has proved "not enough...
Last week, unable to effect a compromise that would keep R. M. F. out of ruinous reorganization, she stepped out. Old Vice President John R. Lawson, onetime president of Colorado's Federation of Labor, resigned and took three months' pay. Into Rocky Mountain Fuel's offices in Denver moved William Taylor, president of Cleveland's Coal Mine Management Co. His aim: to reorganize R. M. F.. put it back on a paying basis. Colorado mine union leaders talked to Reorganizer Taylor, said they were satisfied no change in labor policies was intended...
...They make war! We make war! . . . They say, All restrictions off on the most brutal instincts of mankind! We say the same, until once more . . . far from conquering our enemies we let them make us after their own image. So at long last, at the end of a ruinous era, we shall be facing again the question-which God grant us grace to face now before it is too late-'How can Satan cast out Satan...
...words now characteristic of NLRB. If his placating presence fails to smooth down A. F. of L., Business and hostile Congressmen, the Administration may even enlarge NLRB, or as a last resort sacrifice Chairman Warren Madden and co-Member Edwin Smith in order to save the Wagner Act from ruinous amendments...