Word: borrowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good. From Los Angeles, Hilton went shopping in New York. "When I saw all those people in the streets, I didn't see how you could lose money," he says. "And I had to establish myself in New York. I could borrow money from my Texas friends to buy a small hotel, but only in New York could I get the millions I wanted to swing the deals I had in mind." The first deal looked too good to Hilton. The famed Ritz Hotel was offered to him for $700,000 and he turned it down. Said...
Back in Underclothes. Prices are high: businessmen keep asking high prices for their goods, in an attempt to get the capital which they cannot borrow. A plain laborer earning no marks a month spends most of his wages on food; a cheap suit will cost him two months' pay, shoes more than a week's. "Stuttering," as the Germans call installment-plan buying, is in high vogue. Crack the stutterers: "Any honest man has debts today...
...craftsmanship and imagination, some of Fabergé's works rivaled those of Benvenuto Cellini, but unlike Cellini, Fabergé had been a 100% eclectic with a vast history of luxury arts to borrow from and exploit. While his best works were magnificently unique, his worst looked like refugees from a dime store bric-a-brac counter...
...government employees, who had been given the afternoon off, wound its way through downtown Havana last week, now & then raising a polite shout: "Empréstito, si! [The loan, yes!]." They were signifying their well-organized approval of President Prío Socarrás' proposal to borrow up to $200 million from U.S. banks for public works and industrial development...
Mason said the Society had asked MIT fraternities and foremen at the Eliot Bridge site, and had even tried to borrow the "Leviathan," the Harvard crew's Nile-type practice barge. "We couldn't even get a life-saver," he pined...