Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Israel is simply unable to live on its own resources. The vast sums of foreign aid that kept it going ($1 billion from America alone up to 1952) are drying up. The big Israeli private-bond drive, trying to raise $500 million among its friends in the U.S. in three years, has actually realized only a fifth (some $100 million) in the first 22 months...
...been ripped in two by the war of Communism and the democracies. This is the Germany of Otto Dibelius. Once Europe's arbiter, but now politically weak, this Germany logically has as its spokesman a Lutheran bishop, for its spiritual unity, at the moment, is the only bond which may keep its severed halves alive and hopeful...
...assistance. His neighbors and his friends began telephoning him to offer their help as soon as they heard of his arrest. The president of a local neighborhood association wrote to Washington asking congressional relief for "this unfortunate man." At week's end, Reinhold, free on $1,000 bond, felt that he had some grounds for hoping that the Government would allow him to settle down legally, and become a citizen...
...there was plenty of excitement in "graveyard" bond issues, i.e., defaulted bonds of satellite countries. A flurry of trading sent Polish bonds scampering from 8 to 13, the highest price since 1949. Estonian issues jumped from 11⅞ to 15, the highest they had climbed since 1947. Overnight, an issue of Kreuger & Toll bonds, backed by assets frozen in Hungary, more than doubled in price from ¾ to 1¾. None of them had an apparent value. But speculators were hoping that Stalin's death might shake satellite countries loose from Russia, and that they might...
...even longer chance that the $75 million worth of Russian Imperial bonds sold in the U.S. before the revolution might also be redeemed eventually, speculators sent them scooting up too. Even Russian dollar bonds, which the Soviets had repudiated in 1919, joined in the advance; one issue which had been due in 1919 rose 18% (to $40 for a $1,000 face-value bond), while another rose 33%, also...