His brothers squandered their allowances at gaming tables and in brothels, and then turned to George for emergency infusions of cash.
And some airline executives and analysts are predicting that the federal government will have to give the airline industry an emergency infusion of cash.
It would be a slow-motion long-term bail-out of even greater scale than the recent emergency infusions.
Only an emergency infusion of printed federal funny money is keeping most state boats afloat right now.
Amtrak threatened to shut down last summer, but an emergency infusion of $205 million from Washington prevented that.
He said he needed the $1 billion emergency infusion in military aid this year.
AmeriCorps needs an emergency infusion of $100 million just to maintain its current operations.
The program also ran into financial trouble last year and required an emergency infusion of money in February.
That led to cuts this year of up to 20 percent to 18 legal-services groups, despite emergency infusions of cash.
An emergency infusion of capital was needed from its parent, the Continental Illinois Corporation.