Word: loan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...post-War twilight, Speyer & Co. floated many a foreign loan, financed railroads, built a railroad in Bolivia, power plants in Manila. But Speyer's London firm was dissolved in 1922; in 1934 the Lazard-Speyer-Ellissen banks in Berlin and Frankfurt were dissolved. Latterly Speyer & Co. has fallen into the sere and yellow leaf...
...Croydon, England, Mrs. Julia Baxter appeared in Bankruptcy Court. Her reasons: on a ?500 loan she recovered only ?175; crooked employes ruined her two business ventures; she lost ?22 gambling; burglars stole her jewelry. Asked why she had not sought her husband's financial advice, she replied: I found I had married a man with no brains...
...behalf. He could report that, after allotting before last January 1 all the $965,000,000 given him for fiscal 1939, he still had on hand 2,800 projects approved as feasible and suitable for PWA to undertake. He could report that of all the hundreds of millions loaned by PWA to States and municipalities, only $5,000,000 or 4/5% had been defaulted. Meantime, PWA had made $12,000,000 by selling at premium local bonds put up as loan collateral. Better than 80% of all bond issues proposed to local voters to pay their share (usually...
...night in Sweden and the people dance around the maypoles. In England last week 500,000 people saw Blue Peter win the Derby; cars were leaving London at the rate of 48,000 an hour; railroads put on 2,500 special trains for Whitsunday; a ?5.000,000 South African loan was subscribed in 15 minutes; unemployment had decreased by 395,000 since February. In weather so exceptional the Derby was called Heatwave Derby, all young men between 20 and 21 registered for the draft, and labor's periodic stirring, signalized by recent rent strikes that involved...
Early this year he ordered two 21-passenger DC-3's, financed by a $250,000 bank loan, to supplement two 14-passenger DC-2's bought from American. When the big ships were delivered business was there to fill them and Canadian Colonial began to operate three trips a day each way. This week Canadian Colonial finishes training six pretty bilingual Canadiennes (under 125 pounds) to be its first air hostesses. They are not registered nurses. Said unorthodox Sigmund Janas: "Why should they...