Word: payments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reared to respectability by the automobile, the installment plan before Depression had spread to refrigerators, pianos, radios, oil burners and similar relatively durable goods. It had always been possible to buy a diamond solitaire, or a suite of overstuffed furniture or an encyclopedia on a deferred payment plan, but installment selling as a major factor in U. S. economics developed after the War. Even in those exciting days a substantial down payment was required and terms for the balance seldom exceeded twelve months. Moreover, the goods covered by the contract were supposed to have a considerable repossession value...
Bill of Particulars. Mr. Morgenthau listed eight kinds of tax-dodging, all of which he classed as "moral fraud": 1) setting up personal holding companies in the Bahamas, Panama, Newfoundland and other places from which tax money cannot be extradited; 2) buying one-payment life insurance (from a Bahama company), borrowing back the "payment" and claiming tax deductions for interest paid on the loan;* 3) establishing personal holding companies in the U. S., which in spite of special taxes still pays those who are rich enough; 4) incorporating yachts, town houses, country estates, racing stables so that their operating losses...
Cross-examination waxed so heated that spectators left their seats, circled the defense attorney and the plaintiff as questions disclosed that the check was a routine interest payment on $9,998 of Soviet bonds which Dr. Freeman had purchased for his mother's estate; that Dr. Freeman had been Boston-born Abram Ellis Friedman until he changed his name in 1923 "because I thought it stood as a handicap".; that Dr. Freeman believed "to talk about God, you must first create an image, and then talk about the image you have created"; that Dr. Freeman in his book Social...
Many a Journal man found last January's large bonus a help toward the 50% down payment on his stock. Balance was due within ten years, with dividends applied toward payment. Employes leaving the Journal, or reaching the age of 65 must return their holdings in the stock for resale to eligible employes. Through the trustees, they may sell at any time to other employes. To prevent sales to outsiders, employes hold "certificates of participation" with voting power, instead of actual stock...
...production, depending on the grade of the ore, but in no case less than $100,000 per year. Mr, Austin also stipulated that should the option be exercised, the $10,000,000 must be paid in instalments of not less than $1,000,000 annually. The $250,000 down payment last week was split equally between Mr. Austin, his thrifty wife Bernice, his brother Jess, two sons, Wilfred and Kenneth, and his daughter, Mrs. Bonnie Jean Austin Sobrio. What the Austins will do with their fortunes is a mystery. Rugged old Mr. Austin once declared: "I have two sons...