Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese War Production Board to finance essential production. The urgent need for additional working capital in many Chinese industries also made it necessary that China's Government banks reduce interest rates for war production to a point where management would once more find it possible to borrow capital and borrow it quickly. With the approval of the Generalissimo, I put the issue before the newly appointed Minister of Finance and participated in negotiating among the Chinese War Production Board, the Ministry of Finance and the four Government banks. The bankers agreed to reduce interest rates on loans...
...part of the realignment by which Field Marshal Montgomery had taken over command of the U.S. First and Ninth Armies, with which Quesada's and Nugent's air groups had been bracketed. Actually the shift was mainly administrative: Vandenberg could still call on Coningham to borrow planes, as Coningham had called on him before...
...Patterson will have to find someone else to match Caniff's slick draftsmanship, crackling dialogue and skilled adventure story. For his part, Caniff will have to create an entirely new character-cast and story for Field. So far he has decided only that he will not borrow from his Male Call, a lustier, bustier strip which he draws free for over 1,000 G.I. newspapers (TIME...
...help them all get started, Veterans' Administrator Frank T. Hines last week laid down the rules under which the soldiers can borrow for new enterprises under the G.I. bill of rights. The Federal Government will guarantee a soldier's loan, made by a private bank, loan company, or friend, up to $2,000, providing the RFC or Maury Maverick's Smaller War plants Corp. approves. One requirement: the project must have a reasonable chance of success. If they wish, soldiers can pool their loans, that is, 100 soldiers can get $200,000 to go into business together...
...eastern front some 140 German divisions bided their time. Wehrmacht leaders, hungry for reinforcements in the west (where perhaps 70 divisions faced the Americans, British and French), still dared not borrow from the east. Like everyone else, they could read the signs, and the conclusion was inevitable: a Russian offensive would begin in a matter of weeks...