Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, teachers have beseeched parents to lend a hand in schools. Lexington, Mass. has found a way to put them to work. Last week, when Art Teacher Paul Ciano wanted technical advice, all he had to do was flip open a fat new directory of citizen volunteers. He picked out a professional painter, a package designer and an M.I.T. professor of sculpture-all enrolled in a unique campaign to prod outside talent into the town's classrooms...
...recession as an aid to recovery. In abandoning the 3½% level that had held since last spring, the Fed's purpose was to narrow the abnormal gap between the cost of Fed money to member banks and the rate at which the banks could lend money to their customers. After commercial banks upped the rate to their best customers from 4½% to 5% (TIME, Sept. 14), the interest spread rose to 1½%. Moreover, for several weeks the old discount rate was actually below the going market rate on U.S. Treasury bills, creating an opportunity for banks...
Ogunquit, Me., Playhouse: Lend an Ear, a musical revue...
...same time, banks find themselves with relatively less money to lend. In the nation's mutual savings banks, total deposits rose $585 million in the first six months this year to $34.6 billion -but the growth during the same period last year was $1.3 billion. Instead of putting and keeping their money in savings accounts, people are attracted by higher returns in the stock market or Government bonds. The rate of growth of time deposits has been falling off because corporations, state and local governments, and foreign depositors can now get nearly 3½% on a 91-day Treasury...
...Italy's dominant Christian Democratic Party; of a heart attack; in Rome. At the zenith (1923) of his powers Sturzo fell before the violent tactics of Mussolini and fled the country, in exile wrote prophetically (Italy and the Coming World) of postwar disorders, later returned to Italy to lend encouragement to his flourishing Christian Democrats...