Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less expensive to borrow money.) ¶ An even faster-acting weapon is the FRB's $23 billion portfolio of marketable Treasury securities. To nip expanding credit, the FRB sells securities through its Open Market Committee at competitive prices, thus sucks in funds from bank reserves. Since banks can lend up to $6 for every $1 in reserve, every dollar paid for these Treasury securities actually can mop up as much as $6 in potential loans. Since the first of the year, the Open Market Committee has allowed the banking system to thin out their portfolios without replenishing the money...
...were sleeping in beds provided by American money, using equipment bought by American money, and reading books bought with American money." Diffenderfer said one student had said to him: "I dislike the U.S. and propose to publish a newspaper attacking the U.S.," and had then asked: "Will the foundation lend me the money?" Diffenderfer replied: "If you're coming to shoot me, why should I give you a gun?" "To prove," answered the student, "that you really do believe in free speech, as you claim...
...What worries U.S. and British industrialists-who have $800 million invested in India-is that Moscow's profits-be-damned business philosophy may eventually squeeze out all free enterprise. Oil companies, with a greater investment than any other foreign industry, are already seeing Red. Russia has offered to lend India 250 oil geologists, says it wants no oil rights in return. Though British and U.S. companies, e.g., Burmah Oil, Standard Vacuum, have spent years and millions of dollars to develop new oil resources in India, Russian surveys have encouraged the Indian government to look...
...blackmail victims-quislings who never quisled because Hitler never got around to invading their countries-earnestly try to bump Mitchum off their vile, traitorous scent. In all, Foreign Intrigue rates as the murkiest black-and-white color film of the year, lacking only a chase through sewers to lend it a more poignant aroma...
...Bolivia, El Salvador and Peru planned to send their presidents-elect. Indications were that at week's end, when the guests get together for the first formal meeting of the two-day conference, at least 17 chief executives and presidents-elect* would be on hand to lend glitter to the largest collection of heads of state ever to baffle a protocol officer in charge of dinner seating...