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...born in St. Louis, was surely inspired by the Mississippi when he referred to a river in his poem The Dry Salvages as "a big strong brown god." But poetry isn't appropriate at times like these. "You can't say the river is very charitable," says a tract attributed to Mark Twain, perhaps the Mississippi's most famous observer. "Except for the fact that the streets are quiet . . ., there's really nothing good to say about a flood...
...bank also received one application (which it approved) from tract 3525, and no applications from tract 3524, an East Cambridge neighborhood that had the third lowest per capita income...
...These tract lie in the neighborhoods of East Cambridge and Cambridgeport, which had the third, fourth, and fifth lowest per capita income...
...bank received no applications from Area 2 census tract 3531, the city's lowest income area in 1989. Area 7, the Riverside neighborhood which had the second-lowest per capita income in 1989, also submitted no applications...
...Cambridgeport received 247 Cambridge mortgage applications. The only census tract from which the bank did not receive an application was 3524--a Central Square neighborhood with the third lowest income in 1989. Mullins says his 20 mortgage executives operate on 100 percent commission and are therefore driven to seek the maximum number of mortgages possible...