Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hansen's proudest feat is a projected M-G-M production of The Big Glass House, a story of the U.N.'s new Manhattan headquarters in the Grand Hotel manner. He has no advertising budget with which to plug movies that plug the U.N., but he can lend studios Korean war film, give producers publicity in U.N. publications and good story material ("I have 30 story treatments dealing with the U.N. which would make fresh, wonderful pictures...
...Christmas formal dance and later, dinner, lend a more normal tone to the life of the house. The latter event is marked in some dining rooms by flaming puddings (no brandy...
Yielding a point himself, Rayburn offered a compromise. Instead of an outright gift, the U.S. would lend India $190 million on easy terms to buy the necessary 2,000,000 long tons of grain. The terms would be left up to ECA (probably 35 years to pay at 2½% interest), and India could repay the loan in strategic materials such as monazite (a source of fissionable thorium), jute and manganese...
...pair of shoes. She need not have been surprised: it was just another Pioneer sales promotion stunt. "We'll do anything for a customer," says Pioneer's Founder and Chairman William F. Long. "We'll get him a hotel room, rent him a car, lend him a horse, tend the baby, or run errands...
...what it has to offer the West. Oil-rich Iran proved itself anti-Communist back in 1946 when it resisted Russian attempts to grab some of its territory; so it seemed a fine idea for the United States to send money and experts there. But in deciding to lend an unqualified helping hand to Iran, this country found itself supporting a corrupt and unpopular government, one which consistently ignored the social and economic wretchedness of its people. For this hasty action the United States was bound to pay a price...