Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...itself or the rest of the world. This is no longer possible. We are now the second largest creditor nation in the world; adherence to our traditional, policy means that we shall attract gold in great volume and jeopardize the gold standard in many countries whenever we fall to lend abroad on a large scale. A few people mistakenly believe that our recent heavy gold losses indicate that our pull upon the world's gold supply has ceased. But these losses are only temporary and have been largely due to the conversion of foreign bank balances and bill holdings here...
...bill to create a Reconstruction Finance Corporation, keystone of the President's relief program; sent it to the House. With $2,000,000,000 in assets ($500,000,000 from U. S. Treasury, $1,500.000.000 from the public sale of debentures), R. F. C. will lend money to banks, industry, railroads, farm groups, exporters (save of war supplies...
...regretted that stories about spies in the World War must inevitably arrive at a harsh and gloomy finish. Always there seems to be that roll of drums; the bleak yard where executions take place. Even the glamorous and passionate spoken Greta Garbo is unable to lend the happy tinge of romance and action to the story of "Mata Hari" now showing at Loew's State Theatre. Few of us will deny the remarkable charm of this great Swedish actress, but the producers of her films are strangely inept...
...with which it is difficult to cavil. The delegate will probably do little good to the conference for it is impossible for him to possess the facts which might make him effective. But he will learn the difficulties with which foreign negotiations are fraught and he will, if appointed, lend concrete proof to the fact that American youth is, at least, interested in the peace of the world...
...made from radium element. The minimum quantity for a proper pack treatment is five grams ($350,000). Until last year there were only six grams in possession of the New York Department of Hospitals. By means he kept a deep, dark secret Dr. Kaplan persuaded Radium Beige to lend him five more grams. One gram arrived last year, the other four will come next month. He will have use of the radium for one year. After that it must be returned when Radium Beige asks...