Word: loan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contracted beriberi from living on soda crackers in college, never earned more than $8,500 a year, never took a loan. He was precious, persnickety, sometimes naive. He refused to recruit players or give athletic scholarships. "I would rather lose every game than win one by unfair means," he said. Over the years Amos Alonzo Stagg won a fantastic 310 games - and invented just about everything there is to football today...
...four-story Palmer St. annex, to be finished by next winter, required a $1.7 million mortgage. City taxes on the annex and payments on the loan are the Coop's major cost pressures...
Most bankers still do not think that that is too much, but the number of critics is growing. Arthur L. Nash, senior loan executive of Manhattan's Brown Brothers Harriman, fears that "the stage may be set for trouble" because of careless lending, and H. Frederick Hagemann Jr., president of Boston's State Street Bank, worries because "banks are more highly loaned than at any time since the '20s." Says Ransom Cook, president of San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank: "The proper criticism now is that banks aren't conservative enough." If Senator McClellan...
...Margery Hurst is one of Britain's richest and most self-esteeming women. She has more reason than most for being both. At 51, she heads Britain's largest secretarial employment agency, London's Brook Street Bureau, which she herself founded in 1946 with a $200 loan. "I never thought for a moment that I could fail," says Mrs. Hurst. Her confidence in herself has not been misplaced. This week her Brook Street Bureau will take the unusual step of going public with the sale of 540,000 of its shares for more than...
...Within six months, Ayub had signed a trade pact with China, a border agreement that threw Chinese support behind Pakistan's demands for disputed Kashmir, and a contract that established joint airline service between Karachi, Dacca, Canton and Shanghai. With that, the U.S. withheld a $4,300,000 loan for an airport at Dacca, arguing that it was hardly prepared to serve Communist Chinese air travelers. But overall U.S. aid to Pakistan continued at nearly $400 million a year...