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Word: loan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...punk in the trunk was Andrew von Etter, 26, a smalltime chiseler under indictment for fraud and suspected of being a loan shark. A onetime associate of the late Punchy McLaughlin, he died of a crushed skull and, for good measure, garroting. Whether they choose firearms, rope, blunt instruments, knives or a combination of weapons, the Boston badmen almost invariably indulge in overkill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Overkill in Boston | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

Though police trace the mayhem back to the McLaughlin-McLean contretemps-a falling-out romantically attributed to a slur on one mug's moll-they theorize that other motives have since arisen. Many of the victims made their living as loan sharks. This is big, if disorganized, business in Boston's lower crust. The "vigorish," or profit, is estimated at $1,000,000 a week. With that kind of take, the competition for trade is bound to be keen. As might be expected, the surplus of bodies has been accompanied by a dearth of witnesses and evidence. Just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Overkill in Boston | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...peephole magazine Confidential. Happily for moralists, he is also a loser on occasion: he failed to foil Senate censure of the late Joe McCarthy, and last week he lost the case of Bobby Baker, who was found guilty of, among other things, pocketing $99,600 that California savings-and-loan bankers had handed him as Senate campaign "contributions" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lawyers: The Winning Loser | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...quarter, the directors voted to skip a dividend. To reduce inventories, American's plants will close for ten working days, the second such shutdown in two months. Having virtually exhausted a $75 million line of credit from 24 banks the company last month arranged an additional $20 million loan. All $95 million is due in May, but Chapin called the loans "renegotiable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: Rambling into the Gap | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...weeks ago, most Manhattan banks shaved the rate that is paid to savers on large certificates of deposit from 51% to 51%. Last week that rate fell to 51%. One result is that savings again are flooding into savings and loan associations, the No. 1 source of mortgage money (which is also growing cheaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: The Thaw | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

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