Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...triumphed over inherited prejudice to an astonishing degree. You can put a spherical plastic gas tower on aluminum stilts, divide it into rooms, and quite a few people will be willing to crawl along saying, 'Is this the floor? Is this the wall?,' to make a down payment and call it home...
...spent his nest egg as down payment on a rooming house, which he remodeled in his spare time and soon had filled with students. With the profit he made, he bought 47 acres of land, cut them up into three plots, sold them individually. Having made more money on the first two lots than he paid for the entire 47 acres, he bought himself another thriving rooming house. Finally he traded his first house for a third, making a profit on the deal...
Earlier in the week the U.S. had received a request from Britain for a waiver of payment of some $81 million of interest due this month on past U.S. loans. There was every indication that Congress will, after some protest, grant the request. The U.S. was ready to provide the International Monetary Fund with approximately $500 million in cash. There is also talk in Washington that the U.S. Export-Import Bank might be ready to advance perhaps $200 million in loans to finance purchases of Western Hemisphere...
...life insurance firms, says President Maynard Harris of Boston's Franklin Savings Bank, "they are not going to invest in FHA when they can buy bonds yielding as much and buy conventional mortgages yielding more." Neither will savings and loan associations, which currently guarantee a 4% interest payment to depositors in some areas, thus must ask 6% to stay in business. Furthermore, the new rate may do as much harm as good. Instead of siphoning money away from businessmen, it may simply dry up completely the market for VA loans, which are still limited to 4½%. The Administration...
Dwyer admitted that "this may include Harvard and several merchants in Harvard Square." He added that the minimum penalty for violation was payment of first class postage on all such mail. Estimates of what this might cost the University were not available last night...