Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became a Fox Wampus Baby. But at that point Darryl Zanuck breezed in, took over the studio (renamed it 20th Century-Fox), and his new broom swept Rita out. (Mr. Zanuck recently had cause to regret this haste, when he had to pay Columbia a stiff fee to borrow Rita for the role of Seductress Dona Sol in his pale epic. Blood and Sand. Rita and the bull in Technicolor walked off with Zanuck's show, leaving his own star, downy Tyrone Power, a poor third.) The Works. After a year of being jounced around in free-lance Westerns...
...debt limit, set by Congress earlier this year, is only $65,000,000,000. Within the next few months Mr. Morgenthau will have to borrow several more billions. Before another year is out, Mr. Morgenthau will probably have to ask Congress to up the limit again...
...decide whether to 1) let the university go out of business, 2) take it over as a 100% State university, or 3) approve a plan proposed by a special committee whereby the State would appropriate $500,000, alumni would raise $250,000 and the university would be authorized to borrow $1,000,000 more to pull itself out of its hole...
...dollars as a blacksmith and coach builder, he switched from shop to shop to learn how everyone in the industry built carriages, before he was 30 became general manager of the largest U.S. coach-building company. In 1908, he plunged all his savings and all the money he could borrow to start the Fisher Body Co. which grew to be the biggest auto body manufacturer in the world and one of the major units of General Motors. His six brothers were at his bedside when he died...
...aluminum is reduced) for $35 a ton against $33 by the Hall process. But the alunite process yields one-half ton of sulfate potash worth $18.12 and one-third ton sulfuric acid worth $6, as byproducts. Moreover, alunite-aluminum uses less electricity than Hall-produced aluminum. Kalunite hopes to borrow up to $16,000,000 from RFC to build two plants in Marysvale, Utah, perhaps a third in Washington's White River Valley. Both sites are near supplies of alunite ore, also not too far from titanic Grand Coulee, which could supply the juice...