Word: bankrupted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news that Ben Chapman, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, had been fired the same day. Loyal Giant rooters vowed never to set foot in the Polo Grounds again. In Brooklyn, there were stand-up-&-fight arguments in Flatbush bars. Breezy Leo Durocher, once referred to as a "moral bankrupt" by a baseball club owner (out of print, he has been called worse names), was not the kind of person who invited neutrality...
...months past, Dumaine & friends had quietly spent an estimated $5,000,000 buying up the voting preferred stock which controls the long-bankrupt New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail Road Co., recently reorganized. When the management of the New Haven finally began to suspect what was happening, it was too late. Last week Dumaine told them the score: his group controlled more than half the New Haven's 391,000 active shares of preferred. An additional 62,090 shares are held in trust and there is question whether they can be voted. Thus, Dumaine thought he had enough...
...Pupil's Choice. Dumaine had picked the New Haven because he thought it could make money. It seldom had; a big part of its business was in the money-losing passenger end. Bankrupt since 1935, the New Haven had been bailed out by the war, took in so much money that it could spend $54.4 million modernizing its equipment. In December the New Haven hit black ink, and in March netted $814,027 (compared to a $233,797 deficit the previous March...
...former group, headed by Emmanuel Margolis 1G, plans to become a permanent institution here whether or no Wallace wins the '48 election. "Because," Margolis explains, "there is a need for a permanent, really liberal party in this country. Both the Democrats and Republicans are bankrupt, and we aim to point that...
...beauty parlors were still far from bankrupt; their last year's income (around $1,000,000,000) was down some $250,000,000 from 1946-due mostly to home permanents. And permanent waves make up one-half of all beauty shops' sales. Unless shops find a way to keep women loyal to store curls, or newly resolute in pounding fat off thigh and midriff, most of the beauty would go out of their business...