Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...check that Rice had made out to Patrick on the very day of his death. They were also puzzled when Patrick announced he had other checks that equaled Rice's entire New York deposits. Meanwhile, a Texas firm reported that Rice had promised to lend it $250,000, but that amount had never come. Was it just a coincidence that the sum Rice had turned over to Patrick just before he died amounted to exactly...
...Export-Import Bank announced a new policy of extending general credit lines up to $10 million each to exporters of capital equipment. The foreign customer must pay 20% down; the U.S. exporter must finance 20%, and the Export-Import Bank will lend the rest. The two first credit lines under this policy: $4,000,000 to The Oliver Corp. (farm implements); $6,000,000 to Combustion Engineering, Inc. (steam boilers...
With the great postwar building boom, pension trustees are beginning to lend money on big office buildings, shopping centers and housing developments. Other companies are turning to well-paying corporate bonds to provide an increasing flow of new money for industrial expansion. While few companies invest in their own stocks (some even have specific rules against it), Sears, Roebuck has put 60% of its $600 million fund into its own shares, much of the other 40% into mortgages on its 696 U.S. stores...
Nebraska: Republicans Carl Thomas Curtis, 49, and Roman Lee Hruska, 50, had little trouble winning as the state's two Senators. A veteran of 16 years in the House, Curtis is a lackluster conservative. First-Term Congressman Hruska is expected to lend strong, thoughtful support to the Eisenhower program...
There is an undeniable temptation to approach the announcement about football games and alcohol with distended check. The conjured prospect of policemen taking exploratory swigs from every coffee thermos does not lend itself to a straightforward discussion of the ruling and the reasons...