Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...after hours. Now & then, he sprinkled in a big name or two. At one point he recalled hearing that a wealthy oilman named Sinclair (presumably Harry Sinclair of Teapot Dome notoriety) had lost $800,000 in two nights at the Golden Shores gambling club, and had later settled the debt...
...grandfather Ahmet owed 4,000 leva on a house I'd sold. I told them this couldn't be so, and that my grandfather's name was not Ahmet but Osman. They answered: 'Then he must have changed his name.' I paid the overdue debt of grandfather's." Another refugee paid 4,200 leva, plus a 6,000-leva bribe for the "military exemption fee" of his four-year...
...months the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board have been squabbling over the Treasury's cheap money policy. The Treasury, which wants to keep down the cost of carrying the $257 billion national debt, wanted to keep interest rates where they were. FRB wanted to raise them, to help check inflationary spending. Last week...
After the decision was announced, Massies stood quietly on the platform, flanked by his two runners-up, each of whom received a smaller trophy. Some might sat he was thinking ahead to the coming battle for Mr. America honors. I'll bet, though, he was considering the debt he owed to weightlifting...
...enough. Dollar filed suit and stopped the sale. His claim: the Maritime Commission did not own the line. Dollar said that when he transferred the controlling stock to the Maritime Commission in 1938, he did not transfer title. He had merely posted the stock as collateral for the debt that had now been paid off. Thus, A.P.L. belonged to him, Dollar argued, and the Government should hand it back...