Word: repaid
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...Beau Jack was no palooka. Sticking to his battle-royal style, he licked 40 of his 45 opponents. And with Wergeles' incessant trumpeting about his Stork Club backers, Beau Jack became famed as the Stork Club champ. He made so much dough that Manager Wergeles recently repaid the syndicate every dollar they invested. Even the Beau has $10,000 in a trust fund...
...Schwab promised his alma mater a $2,000,000 endowment, but he never got around to it. Instead, when he died three years ago, bankrupt Mr. Schwab left the college holding the bag to the tune of $25,000, which he borrowed from it in 1932 and never repaid...
...community at Christmas and Thanksgiving time. Probably the most interesting item of all is the little-known Phillips Brooks House loans, amounting to about a thousand dollars. These loans are granted without interest to students who cannot get money anywhere else. Forty per cent of the loans are not repaid, but without these loans, many a student's College career would be abruptly ended...
...last week came an object lesson in war financing. In the Civil War, the town was threatened with destruction by Confederate General Jubal Early, chose instead to meet his $200,000 ransom demand, borrowed the money from its five banks. The debt could have been repaid by a $25 emergency tax on each of the 8,000 residents in 1864. But last week the contemporary city fathers, struggling to repay the loan out of ordinary revenues, figured they had already spent $331,000 in interest, would not have their Civil War debt finally liquidated until...
...fare. When they get their first checks they redeem the goods by mail. A Los Angeles shop sent a radio on to a workman in Honolulu last week. Into one shop walked a carpenter who had borrowed $80 last year to get to a construction job in Alaska. He repaid his loan and gave the proprietor $1,400 in cash for safekeeping...