Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gibson Girls & Cowboys. Cowles Magazines, Inc. (Look) agreed to pay $1,000,-ooo for the magazine title Collier's and for Crowell-Collier's Reader's Service, a subscription company that sold Collier's and other magazines. Cowles also lent Crowell-Collier $1,000.000. In addition, Cowles agreed to assume responsibility for $11 million worth of unexpired Collier's subscriptions, said that former Collier's readers will have the choice of taking Look or "any one of several other magazines" or, if they insisted, cash refunds. Hearst's Good Housekeeping and McCall...
...Candia out of jail. Rose made no visible profit from his unusual generosity, while Di Candia, who arrived in Ellenville virtually penniless in 1949, owned two Cadillacs, a $40,000 home, a powerboat. Di Candia said that Rose did not even charge interest on the money he lent him; he thought it was Rose...
...brothers and their single girl friend was promptly transcribed into a movie whose uninhibited fidelity to detail would have whitened a Hollywood censor's hair overnight. More books and more movies followed, each proclaiming in brutish simplicity the joys of pointless violence and casual lust. The first novel lent its name to the cult of its worshipers, and the worshipers returned the compliment by doing their best to imitate the book. Mostly the offspring of well-heeled parents, Ishihara's characters and Ishihara's fans alike spend their days and nights in unconscious parody of another lost...
...sold the same way that suits and dresses are." Today that slogan is a banker's commonplace. Yet when young Lewis Douglas Meredith argued the point in his Ph.D. thesis at Yale in 1933, it was far from accepted doctrine. Bankers sat on their funds, lent only on the highest-grade collateral. Meredith began developing the idea that, instead of looking mainly to collateral, the loanmakers should consider a man's job and his ability to repay. A mortgage, he argued, is not just a lien on property, but "instead is a means of raising the standard...
...trailer owners poor risks, Meredith argues, "Most of them are pretty solid-a lot are retired people who want to travel a little, and a lot are skilled and highly paid workers who have to go from one job to another.'' In 27 months National Life has lent $15 million at 5% and 6%. Total loss to date: $75. Says Meredith: "You have to keep up with modern developments...