Word: mortgagee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The last two stories have more direction for they deal with objective problems which their authors can understand and control. While their issues may seem trivial and dated, it is refreshing to find that ideas as well as "atmospheres" haunt the minds of the Mt. Auburn Street coterie. "Roll Your...
> In Brazil, on the other hand, even small manufacturers refuse orders for less than $500. Reason: it takes 21 Government papers to ship anything abroad, so small orders are not worth the trouble. Furthermore, in Brazil you can make 10-12% on "an extremely safe mortgage." One businessman found his...
Last week postal inspectors nabbed George Apley's successor, got him indicted for using the mails to defraud "a certain class of persons, to wit, unmarried females." He was a tall, dashing, 40-year-old Back Bay Bostonian (real name he withheld from the police) and he was accused...
On a hill at the eastern edge of town stand 202 neat white frame houses, with red, green or blue shutters, which the Chamber of Commerce got built in 1937. The town put up $167,000, borrowed $800,000 through the Federal Housing Administration. So far the project has paid...
A third group was made up of the weaker, just-one-more side of almost every U.S. businessman. Henderson regards this as the strongest factor influencing price rises. Although all sane businessmen fear inflation, none regards "a leetle bitsy price rise in his own industry" as responsible for it. To...