Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wealthy and safe enough to buy an automobile. But many peons now have land, tools and weapons for the first time in their lives, although few of them are making interest payments to the ejidol banks. Since the land cannot legally be taken from the peasants, these land banks lend on the integrity of the peon and his crop-neither very secure. This month the ejidol banks finally exhausted the financial resources which President Cárdenas had been able to put at their disposal. They have kept in business by issuing 12,000,000 pesos of fiat money...
...Statute spelled definite progress, it was also an admission of the servile status in which for 20 years Rumanian minorities have been kept. They are now granted elementary civic rights. For the first time they can be elected without racial disqualification to State and civic jobs. The State will lend its support to public schools where teaching is in the minorities' tongues. Most priceless boon: Moslems, Jews, Unitarians, etc. may now enjoy full religious liberty in Rumania...
During the last ten years the number of clinics and hospitals specially built to fight cancer has increased from 13 to over 200. In its advanced stages the disease is still incurable, but now a few experiments of kitchen-simplicity lend hope to sufferers...
...fill the need for Russia alone. Pending debt settlements between the two countries, this bank did nothing and the Second Export-Import Bank was set up to handle credits for Cuba. When negotiations with Russia finally broke down, the two banks were merged with power to lend to all nations except Russia...
Efforts to end this stalemate reached a peak last month just before Congress passed the Lend-Spend bill. A provision in this bill forbidding PWA to build any more power plants in competition with private companies was removed by White House request, but Senate Majority Leader Barkley announced that "the President does not contemplate" any further such competition "unless and until such municipality as may apply for such allocation has in good faith made an offer to purchase the existing private plant...