Word: moratorium
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...shore up the potentially shaky British financial position, Mr. Fraser would: 1) grant a $5,000,000,000 gold credit to Britain, 2) formally cancel World War I war debts, 3) establish a five-year moratorium on Lend-Lease repayments...
...most radical suggestions yet made to solve the postwar unemployment problem came last week from Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, Eastern Air Lines president. Rickenbacker recommended that U.S. industry declare a three-year moratorium on dividends and earnings, plow all the money back into expansion to create new jobs...
Captain Eddie hopes for a postwar Eastern Air Lines ten to 15 times its present size. Said he: "Eastern is willing to declare a moratorium on dividends*. . . invest not only our present cash reserve, but all the millions we can borrow in a sound and sane expansion program...
...herself a "modern girl," unwilling to retire and dead against accepting the traditional role of handmaiden. For some there were successful compromises, but for most court seemed the only answer. ("Two spoons in the same bowl will knock against each other.") Then courts became so clogged that a "duration" moratorium on all such cases was proclaimed...
Sometimes the Derby has been almost bashed in. Once Cobb found himself $196,000 in the red with $2,400 on hand. He haggled all one night with creditors, got 17 moratorium agreements. Now he says his credit rating is AAA, unlimited...