Word: debts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debt paid bright and early...
...Whence comes this debt of which you prattle...
...cumulative results of six bad railroad years, the administrator would find that during 1935 there were 16 rail-road receiverships or trusteeships.operating 29,018 miles of track. Biggest 1935 disaster was the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific with 11,123 miles of track and a $449,000,000 funded debt. The 16 casualties of 1935 brought the total to 89 companies with 71,658 miles of line- almost 30% of total U. S. mileage...
...currently selling at 30 times per-share earnings for 1935. On sales of $6,346,000, Climax last year made $3,227,000-a profit margin of over 50%. Year before its profits were $1,790,000. During 1935 the company paid off its $1,000,000 funded debt, boosted dividends four successive times. "Plans are under way for increasing production facilities to keep pace with the increasing demand for the company's product," wrote President Max Schott. Calling for a $2,600,000 expenditure, this expansion will be financed from profits...
...intended to be a brilliant literary career by writing a satirical society novel. Famed Publisher Murray fought shy of it, and Ben was cut to the quick. Wanting to get rich very quickly, he took a flyer in South American mining shares. was soon over his ears in debt. Leaving his stuffy law office, he persuaded Murray to start a daily paper to rival the great London Times. The paper appeared just as the market crashed, petered out in a few months. All this happened before Ben was 21. He thought his career was ruined, his life over...