Word: loans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will the Russian proletariat accept the new bills? They must, think the authorities, if the old bills can be called in. And as an inducement to this end, the Soviet Government has launched a "bread loan", by which it offers flour for sale at two-thirds the market price,--payment to be made this month and delivery at the end of the year. The Government is, in fact, gambling that heavy harvests this fall will reduce the price of flour to less than two-thirds of the present market price; but the peasants and laborers do not realize this...
...recent article published in the New York Times, the odds seem rather in favor of the Government. Encouraged by state propaganda and the prospect of exchanging paper of somewhat uncertain value for flour at a good bargain, the Russian certificate-holders bid fair to turn into the bread loan something like a half of the enormous number of paper rubles now in circulation. Just what the Soviet Government intends to do further if this process of deflation is successful remains somewhat obscure. Probably the treasury officials will start all over again the wholesale printing of irredeemable currency. After that they...
...Regent. It should also be added that the Dean's office handles the award of scholarships to undergraduates (the actual award being made by the Corporation on recommendation of a faculty committee of which one of the assistant deans is the active member) and also administers the college loan funds...
...Know!--Know where you can take your discarded books and receive full value in return--not in money, to be sure,--but in the realization that they will be of great use to many men who could not afford to buy them?" This is the Phillips Brooks House Loan Library which loans several thousand volumes to students at nominal fees every year; a valuable service--and one in accord with Carlyle's observation: "A true University of these days is a Collection of Books...
Post-cards have been sent out from Phillips Brooks House requesting that all men who have in their possession text-books from the Loan Library return them as soonas possible. The books must be back by June 15 in order to be classified for next year, the Loan Library will forfeit the deposits of any men failling to have their books in by this date...