Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...majority were deep in the red. A wage increase of 5% will take effect in April, topping two preceding raises of 2½% since last July. Traffic is not expanding. And while Jesse Jones might assure the carriers, as he did last week, that his RFC would continue to lend on acceptable security, there is a bottom to even the best road's strong box. Furthermore, Mr. Jones sometimes depresses investors, as he did last week, with peremptory demands that debt-ridden roads reorganize...
When Home Owners Loan Corp. was organized in June 1933 with $3,000,000,000 to lend, many a citizen asked himself: Would the U. S. Government ever foreclose an HOLC mortgage and take over a U. S. home? By last week the Government had quietly foreclosed 99 mortgages, had quietly marched in and taken possession of 99 homes. Only ten foreclosures were caused by the owners' willful failure to pay. The rest resulted from abandonment or death. Highest number of foreclosures (32) was in the Cincinnati district (Ohio and West Virginia), lowest (1) in the New York district...
...repay Harvard for the loan of her valuable hot dogs, Mr. Roosevelt might well lend University Hall Jim Farley for a couple of weeks. Fresh from national triumphs, it should be a small job for him to bring our troublesome commuters back into the fold where they will no longer tickle official digestions...
...merged with the sins of the nation. The analogy with our present economic and cultural plight is thus complete. Through our sense of guilt, as individuals and as a nation, we would . . . devote a day to spiritual stock-taking." Furthermore, declared The Christian Century, "the day does not lend itself to commercialization as do Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving...
...Worcester, a town now freed from the Indian menace we are told. He might even find a well-fed mammal who not only lives in New York but was breeded there. Or better yet, he might find another Conant around Boston who could attend all the meetings and yet lend a new slant on the Harvard New Deal...