Word: borrowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard for August A. Busch to go to the banks for money wherewith to transform the business his father left him. "For decades we had been in the position of being able to loan to the banks, rather than to borrow from them. But neither in point of volume, nor in margin of profit, could the new products at first come up to the old, and borrowing was essential." Four-years ago Anheuser-Busch was breaking even. That was remarkable after the complete break-up of the business. This year profits, although not of the pre-Prohibition magnitude, are high...
...board, began the President's relief plans by starting the formation of nine cotton finance corporations to serve twelve Southern states. These corporations will have a total capitalization of $16,000,000, against which the Government will loan $160,000,000 toward the storage of cotton. Farmers may borrow nine cents a pound on properly stored staple. Next year's acreage must be curtailed and diversified with crops; other than cotton...
...announced yesterday by the College Office that all men who wish to borrow money from that portion of the Lowell Loan Fund which is under the control of a Board of Trustees in Boston should apply not later than tomorrow...
...followed these unusual visitors, you soon found out that they had not come to borrow books from the U. S. A. They passed to an inner court of the great building and entered, through a door cut through the library walls, a chaste little temple of white marble that has been completed for something over a year. They removed their wraps, settled themselves in comfortable, well-spaced seats and listened, not to a Senatorial diatribe, but to some of the purest chamber music that is to be heard anywhere in the world. It was music under the auspices...
...Oxford the eyes of our educators have for some time been fixed. Future historians of Harvard University will see these years as introductory, in our educational system, of much that bears an English stamp. But they may well be puzzled at our discrimination, at our choice of what to borrow, and what merely to admire. And among those things peculiar to Oxford which command our flattery at something below its most sincere form, there is nothing more remarkable than their debating...