Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flummoxing the U.S. Why does the U.S. lend itself to this kind of game? For the simple reason, it seems, that many American diplomats find it easier to work with the old French political leaders than with the new regime. What they want, apparently, is to find again at the head of the French government one of their old associates who will tell them nothing but pleasant things and who will sign anything he is asked...
...years the U.S. has been subsidizing other countries at prodigious rates by lend-lease, foreign aid, loans, etc. By best available estimates, the total from 1940 to 1954 is about $95 billion. Today most Americans agree that such expenditures are good policy, if the money is spent wisely and carefully. Such an American is Louisiana's youthful (35) Senator Russell Long. But when the Foreign Aid authorization bill reached the Senate floor last week, Democrat Long was the bill's chief opponent...
Colonial Police State. Sultan Ben Youssef's crime had been to lend his royal support to the nationalist movement. His mortal enemy was cunning old El Glaoui, the Pasha of Marrakech and leader of Morocco's 3,000,000 Berbers, a mountain people who hate the Arabs. The French backed El Glaoui, and replaced Ben Youssef with a stooge loyal to both France and the Berbers: Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, who is aged, weak and unpopular...
Hilton was not saying where he would get the cash to finance his latest coup. But the Manufacturers' Trust Co. promptly lent him $8,000,000 to make a down payment on the 753,000-share Statler-family block, and the word was that insurance firms might lend him another $66 million. The remainder will probably come from debentures and a small Hilton stock issue...
...Government's atomic monopoly, it would set up machinery for licensing companies to make electric power from atomic energy. Under the AEC's paternal eye, the companies would acquire their own reactors and other facilities, but the Government would keep title to nuclear materials which it would lend out. The bill also would allow private citizens to take out patents on atomic-energy developments, and would encourage prospecting for fissionable materials on public lands...