Word: payoff
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...payoff comes when Howard reads an inscription on a statue of a salamander which he is packing for shipment to England. The inscription is something to the effect that the way to overcome evil is not to ignore it, but to meet it. This sets him thinking, slowly at first, then with increasing speed as the enormity of the crime hits him. He eventually meets all the tribulations of the amateur detective, getting hit on the head, shot at, bawled out by his girl, and suspected by the authorities...
...Nuys Boulevard in suburban Los Angeles last week, used-car Dealer Jack Black put up signs around his lot: "GOING-BROKE" sale. Excited Dealer Black was complaining about the Federal Reserve Board's new restrictions on installment buying, which had cut the payoff time on cars from 21 months to 15 (TIME, Oct. 23). When such controls had been slapped on in 1948, Black said he had lost $13,500 and had been forced to go out of business. This time he said he was quitting before the loss; at week's end he had cleared...
...Down payments on furniture were raised from 10% to 15%, and the payoff time cut from 18 to 15 months...
...payoff time on automobiles was cut from 21 to 15 months, but the one-third down payment was unchanged...
...veterans and nonveterans alike, the payoff time on houses costing more than $7,000 was cut from 30 to 20 years...