Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other member nations in Eu rope, the fund could also lend support. If necessary, France could draw up to $525,-000,000; The Netherlands, $275,000,000; Austria, $50,000,000. But Director Jacobsson did not think the need would arise. The size of the loan to Britain would help stabilize the sterling area with which France and other West European nations are associated, make it unnecessary for them to withdraw their quotas...
...often seemed that i.e. was trying to say something quite simple, which did not conveniently lend itself to manifestos. Since the failure of their agitation, they seem to have come back...
...drilling contractor, got $60,000 from Wise County landowners willing to take a chance. The first well came in with an estimated reserve of more than 5 billion cu. ft. of gas, worth about $500,000. But since the drillers had no customer for the gas, banks refused to lend money to drill the other two wells. Lone Star Gas, which also had gas wells in Wise County, offered to buy the well for a mere $15,000, which Jackson refused. Discouraged, he went back to his consulting work as a geologist...
ATLAS OF THE BIBLE (165 pp.; Nelson; $15) actually lends a new dimension to Bible reading. Its maps pinpoint the geography of Old and New Testament history; its hundreds of photographs lend a sense of life to the setting; its synthesis and summary of archaeology and Bible history put a firm floor of factual meaning under the text of the Bible itself...
...intricate tax case dates back to 1942, when Eaton set out to finance a new iron mine under Steep Rock Lake in western Ontario (TIME, Nov. 16, 1942. et seq.). Eaton raised $2,250,000 from U.S. investors, got the RFC to lend Steep Rock another $5,000,000, and got agreements from the Canadian and Ontario governments that would exempt Steep Rock from paying taxes until iron was produced...