Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five p.m. this afternoon is the deadline for payment of University term bills at either the Harvard Trust Company or Lehman Hall. Late payment will expose undergraduate wallets to an extra $10 fine and also possible "deprivation of privileges...
Graves talked a bank into lending him $100, made a down payment on a cigar store and used it profitably as a front for an illegal liquor business. With the new stake, he got back into sheepherding. When other herders told him it couldn't be done, he moved a herd of 25,000 sheep into Kansas to fatten them up on leased wheatfields. By such tricks he managed to cut his costs enough to weather the depression. Later, he bought 1,800 acres dirt cheap in Colorado, cleaned up when prices rose by selling...
...next four years, more than $21 billion in Government war bonds (Series E) will be due for payment. To prevent a drain on the Treasury and keep the cash from adding to inflation, Treasury Secretary John Snyder last week came out with a plan. Its nub: encourage people to hold on to their E bonds by continuing the interest after maturity. If they keep the bonds for ten more years, they will collect an average annual interest of 2.9%. As an alternative for those who want to collect on their bonds every year, Snyder would permit them to convert their...
...billion in FHA and VA guaranteed loans made it possible for a veteran to buy an $8,000 house for as little as $56 a month with no down payment. Consumer credit soared above $20 billion, up about $2 billion in a year. Warned gaunt, grey Economist Edwin G. Nourse: the U.S. was traveling too fast down the "slippery road" of credit...
...Kind. In Barrie, Ont., four miners were arrested for passing counterfeit money they had received in payment for stolen silver...