Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Contact. Hartford had told how Elliott Roosevelt, struggling to finance his Texas State Network, Inc., a radio chain, came to him in 1939 and wanted to borrow the $200,000. He testified that Elliott came at the President's suggestion. To prove it to A. & P.'s Hartford, Elliott got the President on the telephone. Testified Hartford...
King Clode summoned the Royal Astronomer (who studied the solar system through pink lenses), the Royal Clockmaker (who kept his sundials in the shade and whose clocks wouldn't strike twelve), and the Royal Recorder (who never let courtiers borrow the History of Sorcery from the Royal Library without first filling out a slip...
...printing thousands of copies of TIME each week right in Tokyo. They are printed primarily for the occupation forces, of course, but we hear that a great many Japanese have been trying to borrow copies from our troops to get their first uncensored news in many a year...
When General Charles de Gaulle was in Ottawa last week. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King asked a favor: could he borrow Jacques Greber, inspector-general of city planning for France, and a world authority on garden architecture and public parks? De Gaulle agreed, and the Prime Minister called in reporters. He told them that Architect Greber would come to Canada at "the earliest sailing" to begin creating a beautiful national capital - a scheme that has long been one of the P.M.'s fondest dreams...
Asking itself where Britain could hope to borrow the cash to pay the initial amount, the Economist soberly answered itself: "Clearly, there could be only one source-the United States...