Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adventures at Night. At the age of eight. George had an obvious talent-and a curiously gruesome way of developing it. The son of a Liverpool leather dresser, young Stubbs would borrow human bones from a physician in the neighborhood and take them home to sketch. By the time he was 22, he was a lecturer on anatomy in York, and one account delicately hints that he was a body snatcher ("A hundred times he ran into such adventures at night as would subject anyone with less honorable motives to the greatest severity...
...credit so that U.S. businessmen can more readily find funds for orderly growth. It is unlikely to take any big measures to ease the money market, which has already begun to ease on its own; but it can easily bring about a further relaxation by permitting member banks to borrow more. This could lead to a reduction of interest rates, encourage heavier business spending, especially in construction...
...bind. He had voluntarily cut his salary when the company was in the red, placed a $225,000 limit on his salary and bonuses when business picked up. Thus, he had not been able to save anywhere near enough money for a major stock purchase. "I had to borrow to pick up those options," said he. "A fellow in my position under the tax laws is not in a position to buy stock except by borrowing." Romney borrowed enough money to buy 20,500 shares, leaving 14,500 shares still to go. At that it was a gamble: with American...
...some $430,000. This is about $200,000 short of what he needs to pick up the last 14,500 shares on the first option, plus another 12,600 shares becoming available this year on his other two options. By paying off his first debt, Romney can now borrow again, add in his net $430,000 gain and thus buy those 27,100 shares this year. His grand total: 40,840 shares, or 28% more than when he started. If he can figure out a way to pick up the 29,400 shares he still has coming in options, presumably...
...turned over a check for $30 million. The bank workers' checkoff has so far yielded $20 million. The revolution's faithful can toss their spare change into big INRA barrels at Havana airport. And if money runs short, INRA has decree power to "rent safety deposit boxes, borrow money with or without interest, open and close current accounts of any kind with any bank or banks, in any type of money." In 1960 INRA plans to spend $160 million...