Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia had wedged itself farther into the Middle East. It had clamped political and economic chains on Syria that would be hard to break. The economic assistance agreement signed last week sealed the bargain. Russia will lend Syria an estimated $100 million at 2.5% interest during the next seven years. If implemented as outlined, the agreement put Syria's entire future economic development into the hands of Russia...
...Bourbon to argue and temporize. Railway workers, bus drivers, mailmen, stagehands, customs inspectors, garbage collectors, undertakers and thousands of other French workers walked out in a paralyzing general strike, leaving Paris streets empty of buses and littered with trash. Unless the government can persuade the Bank of France to lend it 250 billion francs, it will not be able even to meet its next civil-service payroll...
Done up in a white tie and swallow-tailed coat, 56-year-old Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio, addressed Pope Pius XI on Feb. 12, 1931: "Holy Father, the world is listening. Speak." Said the Pope: "Listen, O heavens, listen, O earth, listen, all peoples, lend your ear all of you who inhabit the globe...
...multi-nation investment association in much the same manner that six individual contracting companies joined together to build the Hoover Dam. Such pooling, said Industrialist Beitz, would provide "a great new source of investment capital." It would be a private world bank that would receive and that would lend local currencies for investment anywhere in the world...
...replace the deferred 25%. Though full payment will come when the Air Force gets more money at the end of fiscal 1958 or when money loosens because of heavier Treasury receipts, the feast-and-famine aircraft business is such a questionable risk that few banks are eager to lend scarce funds. Those who do get interim financing may have to pay higher interest rates than other industries. And since the extra cost cannot be recovered under most defense contracts, it will also mean a sharp cut in profit margins...