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Word: mortgagee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back from her final sea trials off Rockland, Me. last week, the 26,454-ton, 723-foot, 24-knot America was turned over to tall, horse-faced John Merryman Franklin, U. S. Lines president. As his pen lifted from the $7,328,140 mortgage, an estimated $750,000 worth of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Whither America? | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

> High taxes based on high property assessments have been driving mortgage-holding institutions to accept sacrifice prices in order to clear their books of doubtful "assets" in foreclosed property. From January through May, unloaded Manhattan properties had plummeted from 80.6% to 73.3% of their assessed values. (Yet New York State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: No Relief in Sight | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

Many more issues, which had been in the works for some time, were postponed indefinitely. One of the first and biggest of these was Indianapolis Power & Light, which had successfully floated new common stock in April (TIME, April 15), was ready to refund $32,000,000 of 3¾% bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: New Financing Adjourned | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

By that time, however, the British Government was beginning to take a hand in British industry with a view to its social and military uses. Sir William was asked to locate his mill at Ebbw Vale in South Wales, a derelict steel'district where new jobs were acutely needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Sabotage at Ebbw Va!e? | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

He dreams he is a bellhop in the hotel. Weird guests arrive-a black man in white tie and tails with a gorilla, a headless man carrying his head, a magician who scares Schenectady by materializing a goldfish bowl on his head, a "Lonesome Ranger" astride a goat, an invisible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dark Laughter | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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