Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French officer in Hanoi saw a moon-faced little Indo-Chinese looking at a book the Frenchman had left on his desk. "May I borrow the book?" the little man asked politely. "As soon as I have finished reading it myself," the Frenchman replied. The book: War in the Rear of the Enemy...
Take a couple of days off some time, borrow somebody else's car, and drive at best through and at worst into this city. Before you even reach its limits you will negotiate picturesque Pawtucket, probably the only city in the East where U. S. One--Maine to Florida and main truck route of the nation--squeezes itself into a two lane subsidiary street and wiggles furtively through a series of coal yards while tree-studded residential boulevards intersect it every twenty-five yards. Yes, go through Pawtucket. But the worst is yet to come...
...height of French impressionism, yet today only a few know her name. She held but one big exhibit during her lifetime; ever since, most of her works have been out of sight. Toronto's Art Gallery spent a year negotiating with her daughter in Paris, finally managed to borrow 30 paintings on condition that the gallery would insure them for more than...
...though all distillers are in a slump, Schenley is in a much deeper one. Recently its sales have been off 55% v. a drop of only 28% to 36% for Seagrams, Hiram Walker and National Distillers. Schenley's troubles and its vast expansion have caused the company to borrow $150 million, although its assets are greater than any other U.S. liquor company...
...When the Russians moved into northern Iran in 1941, many Persian landlords fled, leaving the land to their Kurdish tenants. In 1946, when the Russians pulled out and the landlords returned, they demanded five years' back rent from tenants. The tenants had no choice but to sell, pawn, borrow and pay up. There are no more bitter people in Iran today. That is why a Westerner who has been in the area for 30 years says: "If the Russians came back tomorrow, 95% of the population would stand beside the road and cheer. When the Russians were here they...