Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shawnee, Okla., Franklin Roosevelt paused to lend the radiance of his smile to another kind of personage. The station crowd guffawed when he declared...
Less pleasing news about wheat was carried to the White House. The Secretary informed the President that so big a wheat crop is coming up that the U. S. Treasury must lend growers perhaps as much as $100,000,000 to carry over their surplus. The Adjustment Act requires loans to farmers whenever prospective production rises above "normal" domestic and foreign demand (751,000,000 bushels...
...Agreed to lend $5,800,000 through RFC to help eliminate competition between private utilities and Government power projects. Knoxville, Tenn. will use the money, first such RFC loan, to purchase the local power system of Tennessee Public Service Co. as arranged six weeks ago (TIME...
...Began to pour out to industry the first loans from the $3,722,905,000 Lend-Spend bill signed by President Roosevelt...
...Author Freuchen went to work to make money with as much frank delight as if he were harpooning a fine catch of seals. Marrying a beautiful margarine heiress, he began lecturing, wrote Polar news for a Copenhagen newspaper, became editor of a magazine started by his in-laws to lend prestige to the margarine business. When Freuchen was gypped, as when he bought his island estate, Enehoje, or when a lecture fell through, or when his money-making schemes (such as eel and fox farms) collapsed, he roared with frustration. Absentminded, Freuchen tucked his pencil in his beard when preoccupied...