Word: assets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buyers usually are lawyers (who often find a college a political asset), physicians, retired government officials, publishers. College professors would like to buy, seldom can raise the money...
...Jenny needed every cent she could get her hands on. But she was unable to touch the money which had been stored up in her. Annuity unless she left Harvard's employ and she couldn't afford to lose her job. The $50 in her Annuity were a frozen asset and she and her husband "just had to do without...
...Broadway" that the same cannot be said for Walter Abel; he poses from one side of the stage to the other; and though the audience is expected to envision him as something of a great or romantic ham, he is unconvincing their as great or romantic; his greatest asset is his flawless reading of lines...
...said he favored Government ownership of railroads and thought he would be "an invaluable asset" to the ICC because, if Congress decided to take over sick railroads, he would be vitally interested in the plan's success...
These bank figures are commonly thought of as showing merely the condition of the banks. But they also show the business condition of the banks' customers. What is a deposit to a bank is a cash asset to some customer. Bank loans, in turn, are a large part of customers' short term liabilities. "Bank debits," checks drawn to all accounts, represent "gross sales" and thus reflect public spending. The trend of inventories bought with borrowed money may also be followed in the rise or fall of bank loans...