Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the National Housing Act of 1934, an individual could borrow up to $2,000 from a bank-with 20% of the principal guaranteed by the Government -to improve, repair or modernize his house. He could borrow up to $16,000 from a bank to build a new house-at 5% (in some cases 6%) interest, with the total mortgage guaranteed by the Government for a premium of at least .5% when the principal did not exceed 80% of the estimated value of the property. And ''V nited dividend corporations could get insurance on mortgages...
...flies with them via Rudolf Island to the Pole itself, recording the weird tracery of the shifting ice pack as it appears from the air. At the Pole it shows the comrades jubilant, efficient, comfortable. They brush teeth, sluice bearded faces in the angled brightness of the Arctic sun, build an igloo settlement complete with electric lights on a 9-foot-thick ice floe. (Four scientists have already spent six months of an anticipated year there.) Camera study: chief conqueror Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt, parka and bosky beard a wreath of icicles. Christmas touch: an antlered reindeer team prancing under...
Having sold lanital patents to German, English, French and Belgian concerns, Snia Viscosa, which always has been internationally minded, is now intent on moving into the U. S., plans to begin by sending its fibres to the U. S., eventually will build U. S. factories. U. S. representatives are the big New York firm of Meyer & Marks Yarn Co. Inc., whose president, Jack W. Block, likes to assert that lanital will do to the wool business what rayon had done to the silk. U. S. woolmen, absorbed with more immediate troubles (see p. 75) last week produced no retort...
Every year at the end of November muskrats set out to do something about their annual housing shortage. In the summer they burrow into the banks of streams or ponds but during the northern winter the underwater entrances freeze up and the muskrats must build houses. A muskrat house is a haphazard domelike heap of reeds and marsh grass. Muskrats are vegetarians, so if necessary in the dead of winter they can eat their houses. Mostly each family lives alone, which makes muskrat census-taking easy. Walter Abner Gibbs, who is the biggest muskrat breeder in the eastern...
...half the 2,400 muskrats he caught alive in Maryland last year he shipped off to breed in North Carolina. Since then he has been busy dredging canals and ditches so his muskrats can swim deep in winter and grub for roots underneath the ice, using the mud to build up the banks so there will be plenty of slick slopes for them to slide down in their leisure hours. Next week Mr. Gibbs will fly down to North Carolina to see how his muskrats are doing. Though he does not plan to do any trapping there till...