Word: bail-out
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...talked to President Eisenhower, he said: "No, but don't ask me the next question." Reporters guessed he had put in a word for the Brazilians with his good friend Secretary of the Treasury-George Humphrey, who was mainly responsible for fixing the terms for the 1953 bail-out loan...
...driving Johnny Fitch comes naturally by his love of sports cars. His father was a pioneer builder of horseless carriages in Indiana; his stepfather was president of the Stutz Co., builders of the famed Bearcat. After wartime service as a fighter pilot (a career cut short by an emergency bail-out into Nazi hands), Johnny took up high-speed road racing in earnest...
...domestic troubles. What can the U.S. do about it? It has learned that denouncing Perón only makes him more popular at home. More recently it has learned that sending one businessman-ambassador after another, tempting Perón with the illusion that he can still swing a bail-out deal with the U.S., is worse than useless. En route now to Buenos Aires is a different kind of ambassador, a capable but little-known careerman who is unlikely either to sass or salute a defiant neighbor. Even Perón should be able to grasp that Albert Nufer...
...opinion on subcommittee evidence showing that: 1) RFC examiners had turned down the loan as "not justified" because the company lacked the ability to pay it back in ten years, and 2) RFC's own review committee had bluntly reported that the loan would be "largely a bail-out of investors and certain creditors." Furthermore, out of RFC's five directors, the loan had been approved by a mere two-to-one vote (a fourth director was absent, while RFChairman Harley Hise abstained from voting because a distant cousin is married to a Texmass official...
...Combat Rations and Field Rationing Procedure" provided a title for another demonstration, and a meal for the students, as Major John W. Brower, Commandant of the Cooks and Bakers School, displayed samples of A, B, C, D, K, Mountain, Jungle, Bail-out, and Life-raft rations. Major Brower and his assistant, Lt. H. C. Gleve, also showed many types of dehydrated foods. Sgt. Edward Mortimer's field kitchen truck supplied, as a concluding feature, a complete supper for all students, which was enjoyed by all, despite Major Brower's announcement that it had been made entirely from dehydrated foods...