Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bank President and Chief Air Raid Warden Horace Hallett had arranged with Manager John Cashman of a local hotel to borrow it for the emergency...
...several other stations wanted to carry Kaltenborn's pep talk to the soldiers. That required remote equipment (for hooking into telephone lines). So Private Shearer journeyed to Fayetteville, found a radio station, accosted the engineer, and said: "By the authority vested in me, I should like to borrow your remote equipment." Said the engineer: "Get the hell outa here...
...kept. Examples: David Selznick (now de facto head of United Artists), William Le Baron (now sparking 20th-century Fox), Sam Briskin (who has helped put Columbia into the big money), Joan Fontaine (whom R.K.O. once had for practically nothing a week—as Hollywood salaries go—but had to borrow back last year at $75,000 for Suspicion), Katharine Hepburn, Jack Oakie, ired Astaire, Ginger Rogers...
Federal Reserve officials let the word leak out this week. One effect, desired by the Treasury, is to make it easier for the war industries to borrow. Second effect will be to keep money cheap for the government itself, the largest borrower in the world...
...Minneapolis woman brought her neighbor to testify that she had no sugar. She knows," she explained, "because I always borrow from...