Word: borrowable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a Brazilian air force lieutenant named Luiz Felipe Albuquerque Jr., 30, also found out. Having lifted some $35 million from Brazilians in a fantastic borrow-from-Peter-to-pay-Paul scheme (and thereby out-Ponziing Ponzi, whose operations never topped $15 million), Albuquerque found that he had gone broke. On the front page of his newspaper Diario do Rio, he printed a shattering notice: "On this date, for unforeseen reasons I am closing my commercial activities . . . Those who intuitively saw that my business would fail were right . . . I shall not run away . . . My creditors will be paid . . . Remain...
...business acumen and his taste for literature showed themselves almost simultaneously. At 14, he organized a group of boys to shovel snow off doorsteps, at 5? each. In the process, he stumbled across a large building filled with books - the provincial library - and, upon inquiring, learned he could borrow two books a week. He recalls: "They were the first serious books I read. A universe of light was opened wide to my avid mind...
...Fingers. One method was to borrow an F94 (with afterburner) from the Air Force and lash it to the deck of the carrier Coral Sea. Under the watchful eyes of flight physicians,volunteers walked into its sound field. Few emerged without respect for what sound waves can do. When they get strong enough, the sound waves not only hurt the ears but make other parts of the body vibrate. A man standing in a sound field of 120 decibels (common near the tail pipe of a jet) feels the waves in surprising ways. If he holds out his hand...
...Exposition's output last year was poetry.) Happy customers and favorable reviews are quoted, successful promotions of the firm's books are played up. By pamphlet's end, a writer hungry for the heady sight of print is very apt to start wondering where he can borrow the cash to pay for the first installment...
...them do borrow it. They offer to mortgage their houses and sell their cars. One earnest hopeful offered a 150-acre New Mexico ranch in trade. Another awaits a pending alimony settlement to finance her literary fling. But wherever the money comes from, it is a rare writer whose book sells well enough to make it back...