Word: borrowing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Allowed to read whatever she pleased, little Eleanor at nine discovered George Borrow's Lavengro, the classic of gypsy life. Then & there she "knew perfectly well that Borrow's books had changed -forever - my life. . . ." Eventually she found what she was looking for - primitive, half-naked, arrogant gypsies in sultry caves near Almeria in Spain; nude flamenco dancers in the dives of Barcelona; tinkering tribes in the forest of Rumania; Andalusian gypsies who cured her fever with feverish music. But Lady Eleanor's stories of the gypsies are curiously impersonal and sketchy...
...public utility man, and by the time he moved into Manhattan at 35 to set up Henry L. Doherty & Co. (utilities investments) he was a millionaire and had feathered his chin with a goatish beard to impress Wall Streeters. The beard failed to work, and Mr. Doherty had to borrow money in Europe until Wall Street got to know him better...
...long time-payment basis and large amounts of capital are tied up in accounts receivable. Big fellows like International Harvester and John Deere (No. 2 manufacturer) have plenty of capital to tie up in reserves for doubtful notes and accounts. But a company like Minneapolis-Moline has to borrow-a pick-up in its sales from August to October sent the total of its bank loans from $900,000 to $1,500,000. In its year-end statement it had set up a reserve of $927,668 for doubtful notes and accounts...