... self-financed group. Scottish traders and manufacturers at once raised a icr,v of alarm. The group. they alleged. would [ be bankrupt from the start and could not be | made solvent without a_ crippling increase 'in fares and rates. Besides. from an opera| ...

... Lord TEVIOT said the problem ahead appeared to have been too much for the ' Socialist Government to face. They were | ' bankrupt of any policy to deal with the }situatiun. Referring to the earlier clash 'between Lord Swinton and Lord Pakenham, Lord Teviot ...

... Ray and Kay Walsih) than in the theatre. and the ending is broadly farcical. “Ways and Means is the one about agreeable bankrupts (Nigel Patrick and Valerie Hobson) who try to soak the disagreeable rich. This is amusing, but again the treatment is broader ...

... war. Unless we can learn to pay our way abroad, then, as Mr Butler very truly said, we shall before long find ourselves ' bankrupt, idle, and hungry. “Views may differ about the steps which must be taken to ward off the very real threat; what is important ...

... urban industries are prohibited from layinf off employees. Indeed, they are even proh bited from closing down when they go bankrupt as a result of the decreased purchasing power of the population. The textile industry, in particular, has an enormous quantity ...

... ill-will to it and poked her finger into it, thereby raising the sform that destroyed it Several partners in the enterprise went bankrupt, and the only one who came reasonably well out of it was the Earl of Kinghorne. He was the first member of the family to ...

... next two thousand. It doesn't seem to affect anyone unduly.” The West should not make the mistake of writing Persia off as bankrupt. But it might keep an eve on the possible future date when the Persian Government (unless the oil revenues return) will be ...

... would be a Trnve risk that our small gold reserves would fall to a level at which we in this country should have gone idle, bankrupt, and hungry. £ “As it is. there are signs of returning confidence in the pound and things have taken a turn, but we have ...

... right to impersonate Lady Godiva. There are agreeable caricatures from Dennis Price (an ageing film star), Alastair Sim (a bankrupt producer), and Stanley Holloway (an indignant father.) Robinson Crusoeland (Caley.)—lt is_many years since we had a comedy ...

... National Coal Board, Electricity and Gas Boards, and the Transport ,‘(’:ommlulun are determined behind closed ' doors. ' Even a bankrupt concern like the Transaßort Commissioners (which includes British | ailways) can, without comumng its shareholders add to ...

... again. . In the fight which followed Turner's life again hung by a thread. He was under a éu“d of 16 men, commanded by a bankrupt lasgow .merchant named Calhoun, who might at any moment, to use his own words, have sent him to another world that night ...

... Henry Brooke, M.P., leader of the Conservative Party on the council, said that more than 100 of the restaurants had gone bankrupt and argued that if a restaurant made persistent losses of which the council could no longer bear the strain, it was reasonable ...