Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deputy editor (1937-44). Later, Tyerman joined the London Times, moved up to deputy editor. Like Crowther, Tyerman is a liberal in politics and a conservative in economics; thus the Economist's slightly left-of-center line is unlikely to change. But Crowther will be around to lend a hand if necessary. Says he: "I'm not disinteresting myself in any part of the paper...
Between 1929 and 1948, while the assets of America's 100 biggest corporations grew by about 160%, the banks' capacity to lend money did not keep pace. As a result, they began to lose vast chunks of business to insur ance companies. One answer was to merge, enlarge the permissible loan limit (usually limited, for one customer, to about 10% of total capital funds). Thus, when Dallas First National merged with the National Bank, its permissible loan limit jumped mightily, making it better able to supply the cash for Texas' fast-growing industries...
...dissent took on a broader basis than his estimate of the Gimo's personal defects. He had always believed that the Nationalists' only chance of regaining the mainland turned on the readiness of the U.S. to lend active military support. When events-as he read them-indicated finally that the U.S. Republican Administration was not apt to do more than a Democratic Administration to put the Formosa troops back on the mainland, he abandoned hope. He argued that the Nationalists must give up the idea of returning to the mainland and make the best of things on Formosa...
...with Bolanos' personal check? Why did wealthy Businessman Bolanos go to the President for a loan instead of to a bank? And how did Castillo Armas, a man of no conspicuous wealth when he overthrew Communist-coddling President Jacobo Arbenz a year ago, have $25,000 to lend...
...hazards of making money,† set back by at least a season, if not by years, TV's already enfeebled yearning to leaven commercialism with culture. The Manufacturers Trust Co. executive who sits each Tuesday night between guards (the real thing, from the same bank), to lend an air of reliability to the promised payoff, was promoted recently to full vice president. Gentle Gino Prato, who won thousands of hearts as well as thousands of dollars ($22,916 after taxes) in his five appearances on the show, was taken on as a good-will ambassador by a rubber heel...