Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phillips Brooks House will offer 500 textbooks from its Loan Library for student rental today, and Monday it will place 2000 additional, but outdated texts, on sale. PBH hopes to earn sufficient funds to expand the library next term...
...motion to appropriate temporary funds for last year's yearbook. "The Forty and Eight," was approved, permitting the staff to pay off debts incurred during publication. At present the '48 yearbook owes $390 in debts which the Student Government Association will loan to the group. Staff members of "The Forty and Eight" have promised to make up the loan before the end of the term...
...Moneymakers. Henry Clay Frick came to T. Mellon & Sons for a loan one day. Thomas' son Andrew eyed him up & down. That day began an association which was to last for 42 years. Nothing and no one was too big for H. C. Frick. He armed his agents with coke forks, kitchen knives and flintlocks and subdued his rebellious labor. He turned on the great Andrew Carnegie himself and fought a battle for power which ended in the mergers that became U.S. Steel Corp...
Noteworthy among the House's smaller projects is the Loan Library, built up this year to over 1500 circulating volumes, which will offer College texts to those who need to economize on books, for 25 cents a term rental...
Philadelphia's bald, moonfaced Albert M. Greenfield, a real-estate man who became a banker, slid into the department-store business in the depression '30s. With the once prosperous City Stores Co. verging on bankruptcy, Banker Greenfield moved in to protect an $8 million loan, reorganized the company with himself as boss. Under him, City Stores mushroomed from five stores to 22, its gross from $33 million to last year's record $168 million. Profits also hit a record...