Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bottle of beer with the label 'Canadian Ace,' I might 'tend' to write the Federal Trade Commission complaining that the label was fraudulent. ... If I were a thirsty tramp and saw the label I would have the 'tendency' to beg, borrow, or steal a bottle. . . . But so far I have not had the feeling that I was 'being put upon.' " In so writing, in an FTC decision, freshman Commissioner Lowell B. Mason last week also wrote some FTC history...
...employe is permitted to gamble, make a customer repeat his name over the telephone, make an overdraft against his deposit account, borrow money from a client, or buy securities beyond his ability to pay. All of them know that Giannini refers to them as his "boys & girls." And while salaries are not startling, all know they can retire-after faithful service-with a comfortable pension. Most seem to like the setup...
...taking over the bank, in which the Government had hitherto held only a part interest, Peron obtained for the state "its sovereign right to issue money," and what was more immediately important, the right to borrow enough money to finance his huge military program. Argentina's military government has not come near balancing its budget since it seized power nearly three years ago. In that time the budget doubled, with military expenditures accounting for nearly half of the total. Peron's schedule for air-base construction alone-most of it along the Brazilian and Paraguayan borders-will cost...
...loan. Furthermore, it would saddle the Canadian taxpayer with a sizable new burden: he would have to pay all the interest himself, some $30,000,000 a year, until 1951; after that he would have to pay an estimated $12,000,000 a year interest (because Canada would borrow the money from banks at about 3%, lend it to Britain...
...most talked about comedian in the U.S. today is a lithe, 33-year-old mophead named Danny Kaye. Unlike great clowns of the past, he does not wear funny clothes, fall on his prat, throw custard pies or even borrow ancient jokes from Joe Miller. His chief comic assets are a nimble brain and an even nimbler tongue...