Word: mortgagee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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>Last year U.S. farmers reduced their total mortgage debt by $360,000,000, three times the average net reduction of the three preceding years. Total farm debt is down some 10% from the beginning of 1939, whereas farm mortgages almost doubled in value between 1915 and 1920.
> Most farmers are also cagily plunking down more & more hard cash for the land they buy, even though interest rates are temptingly low. In the last quarter of 1942 only half the parcels of land bought in the North Central states involved any mortgage at all, and of those, 35...
Woe betide high-rate mortgage holders, owners of real estate who want to conserve equities, municipalities which retard progress with high taxes and antiquated building codes! Celotex's Dahlberg is prepared to crush them with the cry: "Your rights cannot override the rights of the people!" If cities won...
The Spirit. The Murray Hill's crinoline-&-lavender atmosphere was the expression of one man: Benjamin L. M. Bates. Son of a Manhattan hotel owner, Ben Bates evolved his philosophy of an elegant life when, as a boy, he watched his father's daily ritual in preparing punch...
The plot is wholesomely simple with Ann buying a collection of antiques including a ramshackle house where George Washington was said to have spent a night. Relations with a crotchety neighbor, a fraud of a rich uncle, are the stronger parts of the picture; and a slow-witted caretaker steals...