Word: loans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BRAKES ON HOUSEBUILDING are being applied by the FHA. It has cut off loans for speculative housing (i.e., with no buyer signed up) in 26 areas where plenty of houses are available. Though the foreclosure rate on home mortgages is still low, the U.S. Savings and Loan League reported that it rose to .75% for 1954, the highest postwar point, but is expected to be lower...
...Presidency, but his cold-blooded bluff panicked the leaders of the Távora alliance. Asked to name his price for staying out, Quadros unblinkingly demanded three federal Cabinet posts and the Bank of Brazil presidency for citizens of São Paulo state, plus a whopping federal loan to the state government. The Távora men talked reluctant President Café Filho into signing a written pledge promising Quadros all that he asked...
Modern American art stormed through Paris last week, the advance patrol of a U.S. culture parade that before summer is out will treat Frenchmen to everything from Oklahoma! and Medea to the New York City Ballet, the Philadelphia Symphony, and a collection of some 60 French masterpieces on loan from U.S. collections. As lead-off event, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, setting up an advance base in Paris, staged a big show of modern art, including not only paintings and sculptures, but architectural exhibits, photographs, movies, prints, posters, and barrels of modern gadgets...
...insurance in nine dried-out Colorado. Texas and New Mexico counties, covering 3,751 policyholders. Said Farmer George Pittman of Lamar, Colo., who saw his 642 acres of winter wheat blow away this year: "That crop insurance saved me. It was the only security I had in getting a loan. Now the bank has turned me down. I've got nothing...
...refinement of the cooperative expansion in the Farmington Plan, under which most of America's great libraries buy only one copy of every book published abroad. This volume is placed in the library assuming responsibility for the field, and is available by loan or photostat to cooperating libraries...