Word: mortgagee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some companies, squeezed between high costs, price ceilings and dropping volume, skidded into the red in the last quarter of 1945. But even the red ink had a rosy tinge. In many cases it was caused, not by a catastrophic drop in business, but by a laudable desire to pay...
Problems. To clear the way for his enormous new crop of moderately priced houses-built to sell for a maximum of $6,000, rent for no more than $50 a month -Wyatt called for a halt to virtually all other construction. He would need rigid price controls, priorities, ceilings. And...
Beaver School for girls started in a stable on Boston's proud Beacon Hill, now inhabits a million-dollar home in suburban Brookline. Not quite so "progressive" as it once was, Beaver draws a set of well-heeled bobby-soxers (42 of Boston's current crop of 130...
Race Horses & Chicks. In three months, Skyways' seven ace-manned Conestogas (on which California's Bank of America now holds a $58,000 mortgage) have hopped all over the U.S. barnstorming for cargo to fly. President Prescott has fixed his own fat prices ($1,600 for a full...
Founded as King William's School in 1696, the third oldest college in the U.S. (older: Harvard, William & Mary), St. John's for the last eight years has been the site of robust, red-haired Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr's noble experiment in education by the world'...