Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With credit, of course, to W. Shakespeare...
...must go on to assure ample credit at fair rates to the farmer who has to borrow money. We must protect REA co-ops by safeguarding and using the preference clause and by assuring them adequate funds for transmission, generation and distribution. We must conserve the greatest asset we have inherited-the soil . We must strengthen the agricultural conservation program and the Soil Conservation Service, restore the role of leadership to the conservation districts, restore the administration of agricultural programs to farmers, and take emergency measures when needed to prevent another dust bowl...
...Captain Milburn G. Apt as a quietly amiable man who liked nothing better than puttering in his garden and playing with his kids. At 32, he had 3,500 hours' flying time, a good World War II combat record, and seven years of flight-test training to his credit. It was a record that a few weeks ago brought him one of the Air Force's top test assignments: a chance to pilot the world's fastest (an estimated 2,000 m.p.h.), highest-flying (almost 24 miles) airplane, the Bell X-2-and join the tiny corps...
...Barnes. In first eight months of 1956, SBA funneled out $69 million in 1,717 loans v. $32 million in 693 loans for comparable period of 1955. SBA has still another $50 million available "to meet all the anticipated needs of sound small firms that are unable to obtain credit elsewhere...
...year Fight. The man who gets credit for pushing the waterway to completion was a pioneering Victoria, Texas banker named C. S. E. Holland, who spent most of his life fighting for a cheap way to carry the Gulf Coast's raw materials north in return for needed manufactured goods. Forming the Intracoastal Canal Association with the help of another hard-driving businessman named Roy Miller, he badgered a reluctant Congress into shelling out funds over a period of 40 years, first for a short, 53-mile strip in Louisiana barely 40 ft. wide, 5 ft. deep, later...