Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only way of selling the rest, FLC hopes to induce foreign nations to borrow from the U.S., use the money to buy surpluses. So far, no nation has shown any signs of wanting such loans. Thanks to the inept Surplus Property Act of 1944, they are well aware that the U.S. is in no position to haggle. The act bans the shipment of goods back to the U.S. for resale, lest such goods compete with private industry. So the goods must stay where they are. Ironically, the U.S. cannot even ship home its steamrollers & bulldozers (see cut) rusting away...
...personally, involved in the operation of her bordellos. She not only kept on cooking in Oxnard's big houses, but tended children, helped dress many an Oxnard daughter for parties. The town thought little of seeing fat and prosperous Oxnard dames driving to Lucy's house to borrow one of her legendary recipes. When a new Catholic priest came to town, Lucy prepared the barbecue with which the parish welcomed him. She gave generously to the Red Cross, the Boy Scouts and charities, cackling happily: "Jist don't ask where the money came from...
...interest rate would be 2% (the U.S. Treasury, which can borrow for less, would make a profit at this rate); ill-prepared Britain would have to plunge again into fully competitive world trade and cast off her sea anchor, Empire preference...
...sort of vocational-guidance unit, Commission on the Ministry. The Commission's aim is to raise the general level of the Protestant ministry -all denominations - by helping the churches to select candidates who are as occupationally fit as they are willing. In future, it will borrow the tactics of big business and use talent scouts to pick the most promising young men from each year's crop of college graduates. Hardest job may be sorting the candidates out by denominations : thus far, most of the servicemen applicants have exhibited a vast indifference to denominationalism...
Small Fry Coddler. He bought small bond issues of rural school districts, which no one else would touch. When lack of bids threatened the whole Golden Gate Bridge project, A.P. bought the bonds. He also coddled the small fry: any regularly employed person can borrow up to $300 on his signature alone. When the Securities and Exchange Commission objected to some of his operations, A.P. defended himself by attacking. He haled the SEC into court...