Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soccer does not have the bruising contact or the spectacular tactics which lend an air of dramatic excitement to football. What is more important, it has not received the publicity which attracts the colorful myriads into football stadia. Consequently, the Harvard soccer team has won most of its games before vacant stands and empty sidelines, and its victories have been unaccompanied by streamer headlines on sports pages. Even when it defeated Yale to conclude its most successful season since 1914, to win the New England Intercollegiate League title, and to become Big Three champion, there was comparatively little stir...
...eight cities, for 15 more low-rent rehousing projects, last week went $32,632,000 more of the $800,000,000 which U. S. Housing Authority is authorized to lend to local housing authorities. This brought total USHA loans to $265,054,000; and total commitments (including rent-reducing contributions) to $576,104,000. Thus did Administrator Nathan Straus celebrate the first anniversary of his big New Deal program of sheltering the worst-housed, lowest-income portion of the populace. His estimate of the families thus far provided for by USHA...
...spirit of the newly proclaimed honeymoon (TIME, Nov. 7), RFC Chairman Jesse Jones said that he would have $250,000,000 available for "national defense" utility expansion loans. More in the old spirit of New Deal v. private utilities were four incidents of the week: 1) PWA agreed to lend an additional $3,279,000 for a municipal distributing system in Chattanooga (Commonwealth & Southern territory); 2) for $1,600,000, TVA and 22 cities bought West Tennessee Power & Light Co.'s distributing facilities; 3) in Collier's, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes predicted the doom of privately...
...dining hall was forthcoming; and hopes for a social center were even more illusory. Then, with no sign of help from above, a group of students took matters into their own hands; and now tat their scheme is nearing success, the least that the University can do is to lend a helping hand...
...property values it sustains. Successfully opposing such plans have been the real-estate and business interests entrenched inside the "Loop." But last week a plan that contained no threat to the "Loop" was on its way to fulfillment. Signed by President Roosevelt was a PWA allotment of 18 million lend-spend dollars, representing 45% of the cost of a $40,000,000 7.6-mile subway system which Chicago must start building before January 1, and must have substantially completed by June 30, 1940. To be tunneled at a depth of 35 feet through the stratum of blue clay underlying Chicago...