Word: borrowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most enlightened attempts at reform, few foreigners or Indians looked for an overnight revolution. But the Calcutta Municipal Corp. promised to equip its 2,000 sweepers with the new brooms, and New Delhi's Chief Sanitary Inspector Partap Singh personally called at the U.S. embassy to borrow a sample broom to be used in inviting bids from manufacturers...
...Lancaster (Pa.) Free Public Library, youngsters borrowed eight times as many books in 1958 as in 1954. The population of Lincoln. Neb. has risen 30% in the past ten years, but book borrowing has doubled. At the 80 branches of New York City's public library system, up to half of last year's adult-book circulation came from borrowers aged 13 to 18. And the trend is away from shallow stuff. Toledo and Indianapolis wage a constant battle to replace literary classics worn out by youngsters. Other cities report that youngsters now borrow far more serious nonfiction...
...million. After graduating from Yale in 1931, he got a start as a $100-a-month clerk in the office of William L. Mellon, then head of Gulf Oil Corp. Showing budding financial genius, Evans rented Gulf stock from Mellon at 3% interest, used the stock as collateral to borrow money to play the market. His profits he plowed back into Gulf stock, used his returns to buy into H. K. Porter, a faltering manufacturer of steam locomotives. By 1939 Porter was forced into bankruptcy, and Evans became president when it was reorganized...
...complete the helicoid's basic facilities by the end of next year, Romero recently got help from the government: a $1,950,000 loan and a guarantee on $4,500,000 that Romero plans to borrow in the U.S. Afterward, Romero will need another $6,500,000 for the trimmings-a hotel, a swimming pool, Turkish baths, and something called the multicinema, where seven small theaters will show the same film but at staggered times, so that the viewer can walk in any time. The fanciful project is Caracas' newest pride; thousands of cars bear spiral helicoid decals...
...people come, an' they borrow...