Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morrill yesterday expressed the opinion that "there won't and shouldn't be an increase" in the refund payable next October. He pointed out that the Society is still paying for the expansion completed in 1957, and noted that net profit totaled only $5,000 after the payment of $372,000 in patronage refunds this month...
...Harvard Cooperative Society may institute a single, three-dollar deposit payment as membership fee instead of the present yearly one-dollar charge. This deposit may be reclaimed any time a person wishes to resign from the society...
Paradoxically, one of the great worries about credit, the little or no down payment required for purchases, actually turned out in many cases to be to the advantage of both consumer and creditor. A man who had bought a car with no money down and 36 months to pay had so little equity in the car that he was apt to say "Come and get it" if pressed too hard to pay. Result: many a creditor carried his jobless customers to save himself the trouble and cost of repossession-and usually got his money when the customer...
...general investment account of the University will pay 5.2 per cent interest on all its paticipating endowment funds, according to Cabot. This reflects a gain of two-tenths of one per cent over last year. The rate of payment has gone up a total of one per cent in the last decade...
Died. John McPartland, 47, husky, bushy-haired chronicler of suburban sex foibles (No Down Payment), successful freelance journalist; of a heart attack; in Monterey, Calif. McPartland, who once wrote, "Sex is the great game itself." lived as harum-scarum a life as any of his characters, had a legal wife and son at Mill Valley, Calif., a mistress at Monterey who bore him five children and who, as Mrs. Eleanor McPartland, was named the city's 1956 "Mother of the Year." Later, McPartland's legal widow submitted the daughter of an unnamed third woman...