Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paid back in the form of dividends to the British parent. Then, from a group of U.S. insurance companies and banks (led by Morgan Stanley and J. P. Morgan & Co.), Bowater was able to borrow $45 million to provide the rest of the financing. They were willing to lend the money only because of another Bowater feat. He had signed a contract with more than 100 Southern publishers, under which they agreed to buy the mill's entire newsprint output for the next 15 years. With that accomplished, it was comparatively easy for Bowater to get a "certificate...
Occasionally the lissome ladies who make their living modeling the latest French fashions manage to borrow a dress from their employers for an evening of lend-lease delight at Maxim's. But for the most part, the Paris mannequin's career is one of exhausting routine, small compensation and worry over the future...
...Hubbell Robinson, CBS vice president in charge of TV programming, conceded the rating was "not as overpoweringly high as we had hoped." He added: "It seems to me that we're going to find out whether the public will buy these things. I hope they do, because they lend a quality of excitement...
...that drivers get when they break down on the road or are waiting for a load). Cole estimated this at 20% of his payroll. Shortly after, his drivers changed their minds, refused to give up their nonproductive pay, and struck. Later the union offered to permit its members to lend 20% of their wages for six months, but Cole replied: "We don't need to borrow money; we need to make...
...will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Georgia, and swear that I am not a member of the Communist party and that I have no sympathy for the doctrines of Communism and will not lend my aid, my support, my advice, my counsel nor my influence to the Communist party or to the teaching of Communism...