Word: borrowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four of the 16 patients are Negroes, and nine of the twelve white soldiers hail from the South. There has not been one instance of racial friction since I have been here. We play cards together, borrow each other's books and stationery, bum each other's cigarets...
...milk. Now, back under the eye of British colonial officers (TIME, Dec. 13), some volunteered for labor battalions run by the British as reciprocal aid to U.S. forces. Others dug new babai pits, rebuilt palm-frond huts, hauled in fish beyond the coral reefs. At night, whenever they could borrow a lamp from British resident officers, they danced on the pebbled floors of their spacious, thatched meetinghouses...
...sport's fame has spread to other theaters. The R.A.F. sent an officer from Italy to Cairo to borrow equipment. South African girls stationed in Cairo talked U.S. Sergeant Walter Dzilinski into coaching them, challenged U.S. nurses at softball, licked them 7-3. (The nurses promptly blacklisted Dzilinski, demanded two return games, won both.) The Army's sports program in the Middle East ranges from ping-pong (in place of tennis) to basketball. Many camps have lighted, wooden courts. Boxing is one of the most popular sports. Licked last year by the British, U.S. boxers are now training...
Captain Eddie hopes for a postwar Eastern Air Lines ten to 15 times its present size. Said he: "Eastern is willing to declare a moratorium on dividends*. . . invest not only our present cash reserve, but all the millions we can borrow in a sound and sane expansion program...
...borrow money on the credit of the United States...