Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before they begin it. The solution of the problem thus presented seems to rest on the development of means to train the very young mind without menace to its health and happiness. In other words the problem is one which we have to work out for ourselves. We cannot borrow the method from Europe, where the conditions peculiar to our life have not arisen. Boston Transcript...
Water Power. "New York State is probably the richest State in the Union in natural power sources. . . . If private enterprise, as has been suggested, can borrow the money to develop these great resources, what is there to prevent a public corporation from doing the same thing?" Governor Smith recalled that since 1919 he had been fighting to carry out the state-control water power policy first enunciated (in 1907) by Governor Charles Evans Hughes...
When a weak sister among the nations (as Peru), who has been obliged to pay 7% and more interest on over $50,000,000, borrowed from stronger sisters (as Peru has done), has opportunity to borrow $50,000,000 at only 6% interest, she hastens to make the new loan. This Peru did last week, by selling $50,000,000 of 6% bonds through J. & W. Seligman & Co., National City Company and their syndicate associates. The Peruvian government has determined to devote at least half of the new money to buying back bonds which carry the higher rates of interest...
...from the 46th Psalm "Therefore we will not fear....though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled." They voted an$8,500,000 $8,500,000 bond issue to restore highways and bridges; authorized the Emergency Board to borrow $1,500,000 for other relief measures; voted to loan the St.Johnsbury & Lake Champlain R. R. $300,000 from State funds; expressed their sorrow at the death of Lieutenant-Governor S. Hollister Jackson, drowned at Barre...
...Payment to other veterans in the form of a 20-year endowment insurance policy based on their adjusted service credit. On this policy they may borrow, after two years, up to 90% of its value...