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Word: borrower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might avoid paying in their equalization fees by getting some local philanthropist to set up a marketing fund for them. Then, in years when the ten pig men raised more pigs than could be sold profitably in their home village, those who had surplus pigs could borrow from the fund to pay for transporting their pigs to distant markets, or to buy feed for pigs kept penned until the home village was ready to buy more pigs. In case the pig surplus was so great that the pig men's borrowings exhausted the loan fund, the pig men could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Farm Relief | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...interest to responsible employed persons, with no other security than their own signatures and the endorsement of two respectable friends. (All such loans to be repaid within a year.) Under such conditions the crowd outside the National City's office yearned to borrow. They were accommodated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Loans | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

People have always needed money for personal emergencies. If they had no property real or personal to hypothecate, they could borrow on their personal credit only from usurers, who charged 20% and more interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Loans | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...Federal fund from which farmers' co-operative marketing associations might borrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Farm Bill | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...mills. On the basis of inspectors' reports, he made overtures to 140 chosen mills, whose owners, announced Flint & Co. last week, offered "close cooperation, feeling that the plan was sound and for the good of the industry." When, as, and if the Flint merger is effected, he will borrow from the public some $50,000,000, for additional working capital, and will set operating as one industrial unit some 1,500,000 spindles. Yarn will be furnished more cheaply than ever before (said Flint & Co.) to industries which make bathing suits, shoe laces, automobile tires, underwear, rugs, laces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Yarn Merger | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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