Word: repaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cross lost $75, advertised his loss, received the following unsigned letter from an unemployed man: "I have found your money, but I expect to keep it until I get a break. ... I am going to borrow the money until I get back to work again, then I will repay you with interest...
Taking a long view, it seemed probable that Reparations and War Debts are already over the dam and that U. S. taxpayers will bear the ultimate burden, to be imposed by cancellation or default as the case may be. This should permit Germany to repay her private debts to foreigners (largely U. S. citizens) both as to principal and interest...
...certificates were not stricken International Match's only assets last week. The match & lighter monopoly in Turkey was definitely established and the trustees felt fairly certain that eventually Turkey will repay its loan from International plus interest?a matter of some $14,500,000. In Turkey, International's subsidiary match factory was reported to be in full blast last week with every expectation of continuing. Praise of Turkey's fairness was read into the record. But from all the other listed assets of International nothing tangible had arisen last week although investigators were reading thousands of telegrams, prowling into vaults...
...said of the increased prestige which they will bring to the Classical Club and likewise to the Department of the classics. But to see gorgeous Tragedy in sceptered pall come sweeping by, is enough in itself to make one urge that the project be carried through. The University will repay the Classical Club for its efforts in thanks, if not in gold...
Informally correspondents were told: "The most serious feature of the situation in Japan at present is the collapse of agricultural values, including that of raw silk, to a price level at which the farmers who make up half Japan's population simply cannot repay the bankers. The Government, conscious that the farmers are laboring under an unbearable load, hopes to lighten this burden by a devalorization of the yen, but how this is to be accomplished has not been decided...