Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June. The British advised Nehru to try private capital, but private capital is showing itself understandably reluctant about investing in what appears to be a highly unpredictable economy. Besides, private investors are a little uncertain as to the extent and fervor of Indians socialist ambitions. Russia recently agreed to lend India $126 million, reportedly might cough up another $25 million, which would not be much help...
...experts agree that India will probably have to cut her London-held sterling balance to a rock-bottom $630 million sometime in the next few weeks. But this, in turn, will probably serve to make India's international creditors, both government and private, more reluctant than ever to lend her money or sell her goods...
...government's economic czar, Trade and Commerce Minister Howe, brought in a bill to ensure the construction of a gas pipeline from Alberta to Eastern Canada. The franchise had already been granted to Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd., a corporation controlled by U.S. oilmen; now Howe proposed to lend the company $80 million to start construction. In addition, Howe planned to set up a government corporation to build an uneconomic section of the line. Angrily, the Tories in the House tried to shout down the loan. If government aid were needed, argued Tory Leader George Drew...
Kilty has done a brilliantly skillful job of fashioning this play. Actually the letters are so written that they lend themselves very well to conversational give-and-take. And Kilty has devised fitting links to fill the gaps. Act I deals with letters from 1899 to the first World War, and Act II with those from...
...designed to spur import of low-cost foreign goods, trim West Germany's $4.95 billion gold and foreign-exchange reserves, which are mounting at rate of $1 billion a year. To tighten domestic money supply the Bank Deutscher Laender (the government's central bank) will also lend $100 million to World Bank at terms of from one to three years at 4¼% interest...