Word: loan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Advance Proof. In San Antonio, when a bandit showed him a card that said "Hand over all the money or I'll kill you." Adolph de la Pena, manager of a branch office of the San Antonio Savings & Loan Association and author of a forthcoming booklet called What to Do When Robbed, handed the crook $1,200 cash, stood quietly as the bandit left...
CHRISTMAS CLUBS will pay record $1.3 billion, 3% more than 1957, to 13 million members through 7,900 banks and savings and loan associations. Top saving states: New York $281.8 million, Pennsylvania $184 million, New Jersey $144.8 million...
...break came in 1947, when he designed a frameless corn crib made of corrugated wire mesh. Farmers jumped at it because it was so simple to assemble. Behlen borrowed from the RFC to pay for a bigger plant, netted $305,000 that year and paid off the loan in six months. Then the corrugating idea really blossomed. One day he devised a new way of double corrugation by folding a piece of stationery in an unusual pyramidal form. It was so much stronger that he decided to use the principle for building. Panels of the metal proved so strong that...
...different from that of Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov. He did not kill out of pride but from shame and pity. He had been marked for the priesthood by his mother, and her merciless determination to pay for his education had led him not to the altar, but to the loan shark's table. After getting out of prison, he finds that all the members of his family have died or been scattered. He lives on in a desolation of scene and spirit that the French, under the fashionable name of existentialism, have jazzed up as something to be talked...
Elder's Graduate Fellowship division is one of the four major areas of the program which implements the National Education Bill. The other divisions are: Student Loan, Language Development, and cash gift Financial Aid. Elder will serve under the general administrator of the program, Homer D. Babbit, director of financial aid at Yale...