Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name in the community. The size of his loan is limited to one-fifth of his income. Repayments can be made in installments up to three years. In case of default the U. S. will pay the bank 20 cents on each lost dollar under the "insurance" contract. The maximum interest rate is nominally 5%, which on time payments works out at nearly 10% or slightly less than the interest charged on most commercial installment loans. Thus bankers were
...provided with a safe way of turning an honest penny. It was to their advantage to lend freely the idle funds of which they have a plethora. The Government is prepared to foot the bill for losses up to a total of $200,000,000?the maximum possible loss on $1,000,000,000 of modernization...
...rich bottom lands west of the Mississippi River had combined with AAA acreage reduction to bring the crop down to 9,195,000 bales-25% below last year, and the lowest, with one exception, in 38 years.* This was more than 1,000,000 bales below the maximum set by the Bankhead Act and about 200,000 bales below the best private estimates of New York Cotton Exchange firms...
Even if they had known, few laymen would have been greatly interested in such unspectacular record-breaking. But to airmen the performance was wildly exciting. Over a measured course of 311 mi., her motors throttled down to only 69% of their maximum 3,000 h.p., the 8-42 had flown four times non-stop at an average speed of 157.5 m.p.h., carrying the equivalent of her full load-capacity of 32 passengers, crew of five, 2,000 Ib. of mail and cargo...
Said Chairman Crowley: "It was not until the RFC had given the FDIC a raised the maximum guarantee for deposits from $2,500 to $5,000 beginning July 1. Deposits insured total $15,700,000,000 belonging to fifty-six million accounts in 14,000 banks. This week under the $5,000 maximum, insured deposits will jump considerably. The Federal Government sidestepped because they would have necessitated a large scale reexamination of banks. Another reason given was that FDIC wanted to develop a more equitable system of assessing banks for the permanent guarantee...