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Word: mortgagee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Boston, maligned Mae West was breakfasting in bed. "Why. the independent theatre owners call me the mortgage-lifter." she burbled. "When business is bad they just re-run one of my pictures. . . . The box-office business in the entire industry has dropped off 30%. . . . The only picture to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dead Cats | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

If anyone doubted the President's view, he had only to consider: 1) the preliminary reports on gross revenues of 89 Class I roads in March, which showed a drop of 25.8% from March 1937, and 2) last week's action of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Too Much Debt | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Life insurance executives have not had an easy time finding profitable places to invest their policyholders' money. But real estate is traditionally such a bad investment for life insurance companies- because when cash is needed quickest is just the time real estate is least convertible-that most States have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: $35,000,000 in The Bronx | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

they will see that this Rebecca is a $2,400-a-week Hollywood specialist with no mortgage to pay off, no mean Minnie Smellie to complicate her life, no need at all for a Mr. Aladdin to make her dreams come true.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

¶Completed action on House amendments and sent to the President for signing the Frazier-Lemke Bill extending the Farm Mortgage Moratorium Act of 1935 for two more years.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Mar. 7, 1938 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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