Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senators probing the affairs of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. had a jarring time of it last week. When Banking & Currency subcommittee members asked RFC Director Harvey J. Gunderson why the agency does not lend more money to small business, he had a ready answer. It's up to Congress, he said, "to place the small businessman in a competitive position." Cut the little man's taxes, said Gunderson, and he won't need any federal loans...
...still selling around $35, had just turned in first-half profits of $3.47, thus was priced no more than a conservative five times its earnings. "You can call it speculation," said one thoughtful stock-market official last week, "but the figures on the use of television sets seem to lend a firm base to this kind of buying...
D.C.C. gives preference to enterprises which will put the maximum number of people to work. It relies on good Down East judgment to guard it against bad loans, but it also hopes to lend money on calculated risks. Said President Maxwell: "This country was made great by risk, not security...
...MacLeans to listen to insolent beggars," replied the local chieftain, Lachlan MacLean, but, he added, if the Spaniard would lend him 100 men-at-arms, he could have all the food he liked-provided he paid...
...himself from a small conversational pocket and walked over. "McLaughlin's the name, George McLaughlin. I'm Dana's New England sales manager. Have a drink?" He looked around for a second, then asked: "Where are the rest of your boys?" They had wanted a dozen students about to lend an atmosphere for the benefit of the newspapers, and he was plainly disappointed that the Harvards hadn't arrived yet. I explained that they would appear shortly, and he seemed relieved. "Well, help yourself to the liquor and the hors d'oeuvres," he said, edging away...