Word: deposits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phillips Brooks House Text Book Loan Library is an institution which yearly supplies a large number of students with used books. These books may be borrowed for a nominal deposit of $.25, of which $.20 is returned when the book is turned...
...Equitable Trust Co. (as the Traders Deposit Co.) was founded in 1871 with $50,000 capital. Its total assets today are $586,000,000. It has seven branches-three in New York City, two in London, one in Mexico City and one in Paris. On Feb. 14 Chairman Krech and President Arthur William Loasby opened their new Manhattan building; on April 14 Chairman Krech opened their new Paris building...
...even small depositors calculate and resent the loss of interest on savings they withdraw before monthly, quarterly or semi-annual interest dates. Therefore President Pulleyn's bank last week began to pay, and claimed it was the first to pay, full interest for every day savings are on deposit. In the cases of some small accounts, the bank's bookkeeping cost will be more than its profits. But in the 77 years of its existence the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank has found that expensively small deposits become profitably large deposits...
...these returns was such as to predict diminishing returns in the remaining quarters of the year. Individual incomes appeared to have risen in the past year, while corporation incomes dropped off. Corporations had evidently increased their dividends. Private individuals, attracted by high prices, had taken their securities out of deposit and sold them at larger profits. Thus, while the U. S. Treasury surplus of $252,000,000 estimated for fiscal 1929 (beginning July 1) would probably be realized, the 1930 surplus, upon which tax reduction also depends, was less predictable...
...saber-tooth tiger was a common animal in North America during the Pleistocene age, but the genus is now extent. The specimen now in the Museum was found in Rancho La Brea, near Los Angeles. The region was formerly a tar pool, but is now an asphalt deposit. Animals became trapped in the tar pool when they came to eat other animals caught...