Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shops. Rental apartments start at $85 a month (a few de luxe penthouse apartments will rent for up to $235), while a three-bedroom cooperative will sell for $23,850, with $5,240 down, $163 a month for principal, interest, insurance, taxes, janitor service and heat. Of this $163 payment $94.54 is taxdeductible...
...getting a mortgage is concerned, it makes little difference whether a builder puts in a 20-year furnace for $350 or a $275 job that wears out after five years. The builder is free to add quality features if he wants to, at the risk of raising the down payment so high that it scares off customers, even though the additional cost is usually small, e.g., $150 added to the cost of a roof will add years to its life. Worst of all, good design, good site placement and all other things that add so much to resale value...
...Melvin studied and first baby Melvin Jr. slept. After Melvin graduated, the family moved to Seattle where he interned in the Public Health Service Hospital, then to Phoenix, finally to Staten Island for his promising $5,700-a-year surgical post. In Staten Island the Nimers made the first payment on a new five-room, $18,000 ranch house, excitedly got ready for the big move this week...
...learn from White that each baron owed the King an annual sniff of hot pie in payment of his feudal dues, that a certain bone from the body of a pure black cat that had been boiled alive was believed to make one invisible. Against these curiosa, the characters still manage to hold their own: Sir Galahad, who is so priggish a saint that lesser knights loathe him; Jenny, who cannot make her mind up whether to be a good woman or go on in her usual way; Lancelot, the ugly duckling who is loved by all save himself. Balancing...
...aircraft companies, in machinery makers, rubber and steel. It is slow in base metals and oils, which still suffer from low prices and excess capacity. Both Anaconda Co. and Kennecott Copper Corp., the country's two biggest copper producers, failed to cover their dividends; Kennecott chopped its quarterly payment from...