Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Board finds that this short-term loss will prove a long-term gain. Many a nation badly in need of U.S. goods will have the cash to buy them when they are again available, or at least have far better credit on which to borrow...
...white. We slipped in a glass tube. . . . The blood started to flow and the foot got warm and pink." Thus, in the antiseptic gloom of a casualty clearing station in Belgium, 30-year-old Major William Thornton Mustard last week described a new surgical trick which he hopes will borrow time for many a war-mangled limb, many a life...
...closing, we borrow the ASTP's song, to the tune of the "Volga Boatman," "Only 23 1/2 months to go"--or "Long time no see, Baby...
...William wants his budget guided only by three rules: 1) spending must always be sufficient for full employment; 2) spending must be directed to essentials; 3) it is usually better to tax than to borrow. Total outlay at all times must be sufficient for full employment. The WPA idea is lifted to new heights when Beveridge declares: "It is better to employ people on digging holes and filling them up again than not to employ them...
Minister Ilsley had a good reason for reassuring 1,300,000 workers now employed, directly or indirectly, in war industry. Starting Oct. 23, he must borrow another $1,300,000,000 from Canadians in the Dominion's seventh war loan. Because 60 to 70% of Canadian war production is for the British account, many war workers have been expecting cutbacks. Minister Ilsley did not want them to hoard their cash. He counted on the Pacific war needs, plus reviving civilian industry, to make his job prediction come true. But he added a cautious qualification: "In many cases men & women...