Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, in his Foreign Economic Policy Message, the President will ask Congress to establish the International Finance Corp. (TIME, Nov. 22) promised by Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey at November's economic conference in Rio. Proposed as a $100 million supplement to the World Bank, IFC would lend to private enterprisers rather than governments. The President will also ask Congress to lighten taxation on U.S. firms doing business in Latin America, thus encouraging more investment there. ¶ Later in January, in a major speech on TV, Milton Eisenhower will make an "encouraging appraisal" of the effects to date...
...shifts from the more intimate episodes of the earlier acts to a series of short, emotional scenes underscored with a background of rolling thunder. Not only are these effects too grandiose for the size of the theatre, but the play nearly degenerates into a series of disjointed tableaus which lend little to its meaning...
...Jaunty Broadway Showman Mike Todd announced that he is planning to film Tolstoy's War and Peace next year in Yugoslavia and that Dictator Marshal Tito has agreed to lend 70,000 Yugoslavian troops as extras. A few days later, David O. (Gone With the Wind) Selznick chuckled as he reminded the world that he and Writer Ben Hecht were planning the very same film. Said Selznick: "I, too, have been contacted by the Yugoslavian government. However, I doubt that Tito's troops are uniformed and equipped in the manner of the armies of Bonaparte and Alexander...
...free society it is normal that the developed countries lend money to the underdeveloped countries. Our United States, in its early days, was partially developed by European capital. Today, it is the United States which has the most capital available to help to develop other countries. We must find a way to put it to work...
...always get a loan-when you don't need one. While this may have been true in the past, bankers are now rapidly changing their ways. The main reason is that some of their major functions are being usurped by some hard-selling upstarts eager to lend money. They are the nation's 6,000 savings and loan associations, which represent the fastest-growing financial business in the U.S. As their name implies, savings and loan associations have two main functions: 1) to help people save their money, 2) to supply mortgage loans for house buyers...