Word: bankrupted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Authorities estimated that he had taken in $5,000,000 in the last two years, and had delivered about 1,300 cars. How many suckers had been cheated, no one knew for sure. As the news spread, they started a run on Bob's showroom, but too late. Bankrupt Bob was under charges of fraud, and there were almost no assets...
...Smith Is Bankrupt. She starts with the charge that Western Europe's bankruptcy is generally underestimated. "One would not say, 'There is very little wrong with Mr. Smith except that he is bankrupt and his children are starving...
...founder of the Ingersoll watch company ("the watch that made the dollar famous"); from injuries when he was hit by an automobile; in West Orange, NJ. Ingersoll and his brother Robert turned out their first dollar watch in 1892, made about 100 million of them before they went bankrupt and their assets were sold to the Waterbury Clock...
...advertising either in the newspaper or over the radio. When, therefore, five years from now . . . there are 11 million television-equipped homes in America, as against the present figure of only some 400,000, a not inconsiderable portion of our free American press may be headed toward becoming a bankrupt press...
...strike is the latest success in a remarkable comeback. Once a bankrupt, squabble-ridden company, control of Richfield was bought in 1936 by Oilman Harry F. Sinclair and the Cities Service Co. Under Sinclair, as chairman, it went after new oil leases, built up its known oil reserves from 25,000,000 barrels in 1937 to 220,000,000 last year. Investors were betting that its reserves had just begun to climb. In the last two months its stock went from...