Word: loans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bronx knew him as penniless. Hauptmann's story as to how he came by the Lindbergh ransom money was that Fisch left it with him, told him it was "old letters." When Fisch died, Hauptmann said he discovered the cash, appropriated it to satisfy an unpaid $7,500 loan...
...months after her keel was laid, work was suspended for lack of funds. For two years and four months No. 534 was an empty, half-finished hull. Then the Cunard and White Star Lines merged. The Government came to No. 534's rescue with a three-million-pound loan. Some 3,800 workmen went back to their jobs. Last week, her hull completed, No. 534 was ready for her great...
Those were probably the most fabulous shares in all corporate history. St. Louis banks were always ready to value them at $25,000 per share as loan collateral, although they had no market. In a private sale one share actually changed hands at $60,000. No one but the Busches and Anheusers ever knew precisely how much money their brewery made, but the executors of Adolphus Busch's estate reported to the courts that they had received $9,100 dividends per share in a 27-month period between...
...town. It sounded particularly pleasant to utility men last week, worried night & day as they are about where the rash of public ownership will next break out on the body politic. Missouri Public Service Co. has a power plant at Concordia, Mo. The city fathers applied for a PWA loan-grant to build a municipal plant. In a Kansas City Federal court the private power company promptly prayed for an injunction, ordering the town government to desist and refrain from its purpose...
...Though other coffee lands like Colombia, Guatemala, etc. can produce some 40% of the world's demand, Brazil's crop alone was larger than total world consumption in 1929. The following year 16,500,000 bags were bought up and pledged under a $97,000,000 foreign loan with the idea of liquidating both the loan and the coffee over a period of ten years. In 1931 Brazil was again knocked to her knees with another bumper crop. Finance Minister Oswaldo Aranha, now Ambassador to the U. S. (see p. 9), slapped a tax on exports...