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Word: mortgagee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suburban real estate, like everything else in the U.S., is having a spanking fine boom. Demands and prices for homes are at record levels; mortgage loans are being made on appraisals far in excess of the long-term property value. Yet only a minority of observers see a repetition of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Houses to Live In | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

They called their squadrons by such fancy names as "Hellhawks," "Fighting Falcons" (whose Captain James E. Swett destroyed seven Jap dive bombers in one fight), "Black Sheep" (commanded by famed "Pappy" Boyington). They turned Rabaul into a graveyard of Jap ships while they made screwball talk over their radios: "Here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MARINES: The Brood of Noisy Nan | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

Despite some slow moments, "Going My Way" is certainly the best picture to have hit Boston in many months, and is, in a modest way, something of a revolution in movie-making. The story itself is of the simplest. To the poverty-stricken parish of Father Fitzgibbons comes Father O...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 5/19/1944 | See Source »

U.S. farmers, reported the Department of Agriculture, paid off $467 million of their mortgage debt last year. This left their total mortgage debt at $5.6 billion, lowest figure in 27 years, 48% under 1923's peak. Few farmers have forgotten their mad scramble for more land at any price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: FARM EARNINGS UP, DEBT DOWN | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

The story, without rich characterization, would be nothing much. A young priest (Bing Crosby) is sent by his bishop to help out an old one (Barry Fitzgerald) in Manhattan's mortgage-ridden St. Dominic's. For a while, they do not get along; but young Father O'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, May 1, 1944 | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

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