Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their radios. Reason: the Government did not want the people to hear German propaganda. The Russians obediently waited in line for days to give up their sets. Each set was tagged with its owner's name and stored away. When Lesueur heard about this and tried to borrow a set, he was told: "Why, we can't give you someone else's radio...
...later seasons Ureli Corelli Hill bankrupted himself in the California gold rush, returned to borrow the Philharmonic's sinking fund, in the process nearly sank the orchestra. At 70 he retired from music to take a flyer as a bit-part actor in legitimate drama. A disastrous venture in New Jersey real estate catapulted him back into Manhattan concert managing. In 1875 Ureli Corelli Hill took an overdose of morphine. Beside his body, police discovered a note. "Ha, ha!" it read, "I go, the sooner the better...
...Borrow $80,000. Only a few months after he left his swanky Vultee office, Don Smith got a strange offer: take charge of Interstate Aircraft, a year-old, struggling parts maker with no cash, $186,000 debts and a two-by-six plant at El Segundo, Calif. Smith grabbed the job, went to work with $80,000 borrowed capital and a pair of young, bright, production-minded cronies from Vultee. In no time at all Smith had the parts business booming with sales of precision equipment like hydraulic units, bomb shackles, anti-aircraft gun sights. Then Smith got interested...
...borrow from the member banks, and if the Board of Governors progressively reduces the required reserve ratios in order that the banks may be able to make the necessary bond purchases, we shall face two difficulties after peace has returned. In the first place, the banks will have immense holdings of Government bonds, and the price of these bonds is likely to fall when the Treasury abandons its mistaken view that interest rates should be held down for Government borrowing; that is, as soon as the Treasury no longer finds it necessary to borrow. We shall then be confronted with...
...Treasury last week announced that in December it is going to have to borrow $9 billions-largest financing in history. At the same time it became clear that Henry Morgenthau Jr. is at long last changing the Treasury's methods of bond distribution to conform to methods used in the Liberty Loan drives of World War I and successfully practised by Canada in this...