Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mighty available Jones around all channels these days, blinked and "poo-poo-pa-dooed" through some excruciating jokes ("Are you Ivy?" "It's crawlin' all over me") and brayed his inimitable full-octave singing quaver. Digging into Broadway's attic of old goodies, Omnibus borrowed Lend an Ear's funny, picture-hatted Gladiola ("Skiddy, give me some hooch") Girl and a rollicking Prohibition Era chorus line to vamp the Long Island playboys...
...huge, showy line from a humble beginning. The Soviet state put it together in 1923 from remnants of the revolution's Red air force. In the 1930s Stalin purged some of Aeroflot's best brains, but in World War II he outfitted Aeroflot with hundreds of U.S. lend-lease Dakotas (DC-3s), started to expand it fast to open up underdeveloped Russian areas that had no roads or rail lines...
...agriculture, journalism and law were certainly impressive, and so was his talk of a $1,600,000 bond issue that two Texas insurance firms were to buy to finance the new Belin Memorial University (named for Belin's mother). The Chillicothe State Bank was only too happy to lend Belin $14,000 without security, and local merchants could not do enough to get the university off to a good start. But by last week, instead of a dream come true. Belin Memorial U. had become a nightmare...
...illnesses of the past. Once it were demonstrated that authority could be shifted to the Vice President on an acting basis and returned to the President without a hitch, future vice presidential candidates would then likely be chosen for their compatibility with the presidential candidate and not merely to lend political balance to a party ticket...
...reduce credit, i.e., lending ability, as the Fed has been doing under its tight-money policy, it digs into its $23.3 billion portfolio of Government securities and sells them on the open market, to either the general public or anyone else (banks, dealers, insurance companies) that wants to buy. To pay for them, the buyers draw down their bank accounts, cutting the amount of money banks can lend. To increase credit, the Fed merely has to buy securities. Its checks, deposited in banks, increase the banks' reserves and make more money available for loans. Moreover, since banks can lend...