building and loan association
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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When Marshall Black, a Republican state senator, was recalled in 1912 by Santa Clara voters, he had been convicted of stealing $124,000 from the building and loan association where he once worked.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2021
Then, to help his members save money to buy homes, he started a laborers building and loan association.
From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2020
The building and loan association, the installment firms and monthly payment real estate concerns show what people can accomplish who go into debt.
From Dollars and Sense by Hunter, William Crosbie
With some other sound young men of like quality, he established a building and loan association, one of those banks of the people which flourished in those days.
From The Young Man and the World by Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah
He has $1,000 cash to pay down on it, and obtains a loan of $3,000, or 75 per cent, of the value of the property, from a building and loan association.
From Better Homes in America Plan Book for Demonstration Week October 9 to 14, 1922 by Meloney, Mrs W.B.
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