Word: loans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salesmen had combed Cleveland with tales of a great shortage of burial ground. Since everyone must die, the salesmen argued, best possible investment would be in the wholesale blocks of new cemetery plots which they were ready to furnish for cash, savings bankbooks or deposits on call at building & loan societies. Catch was that enough speculative cemeteries to bury Cleveland's dead for 200 years to come had already been laid out, but the promoters glibly promised 100% profits in 60 days. Following their trail. Investigator Fritchey discovered that the cemetery racket was cleaning up some...
Beginning this evening, Phillips Brooks House will conduct an intensive campaign for the collection of text books to be donated to the loan library. Contributions of old clothing will also be accepted...
...five cottages, a boxlike house of cement blocks overlooking Crystal Lake. To augment her income as royalties dwindled, she rented the land to farmers, the cottages to tourists. Pinched by Depression, she had to take out a mortgage, planned to pay it off with a $3,000 Home Owners Loan. Last week the loan was refused, her mortgage foreclosed. Given three days to raise the $3,000, 80-year-old Mrs. Field had a heart attack, was put to bed seriously ill. Desperate, her son Eugene II dispatched a letter to a St. Louis collector of Fieldiana who recently prevented...
...pieces in the display are 110 selected sets, a loan from Mr. G.A. Pfeiffer, of New York City, and include the famous Hammond collection from London. Together they cover a period of four centuries...
...books collected will be put in the Brooks House loan library, where they may be rented on a yearly basis by needy students on payment of a purely nominal...