Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growing realization of the difficulties he faced. He recalled with what good will he had gone to Potsdam, prepared to offer help for reconstruction of Russia as well as the rest of the world; he found that all Stalin wanted to talk about was the abrupt end of lend-lease...
...abolish lend-lease at the time was a mistake, Harry Truman admitted, but he was "new" then. The papers had been prepared for Roosevelt and represented a Government decision. He felt there was nothing else he could do but sign. He had no staff and no Cabinet of his own. Now he has both...
Last December he asked the RFC (which does not lend money when private capital is available) for a loan of $70 million. If he gets it, he can pay off the insurance companies, and use $20 million to tide himself over while he does his utmost to develop new fields at New Ulm and Collins Lake. If the RFC refuses him? Glenn McCarthy might have to surrender some of his empire...
...gambling joint and on the other by one of the biggest sporting houses in New York. I'm told it housed as many as 60 girls." He came to be a respected friend to both girls and gamblers; sometimes dead-broke streetwalkers "timidly would . . . ask: 'Will you lend me a dollar, Reverend?' And I always would." Once, he remembers, a prostitute new to the district asked him coyly: "Anything doing tonight?" Replied he: "No, but I am Pastor Ransom . . . and if you ever get sick or in trouble and have no one to turn to, either...
...loans? The New York World-Telegram and the Sun was ready with a loud no. RFC has already lent $15 million for oil development to the Texmass Petroleum Corp. and, said the Telly, apparently RFC doesn't know that private "oil-country banks have plenty of money to lend ... If it is a good loan, how did the RFC get a chance at it? If it is not a good loan, what does the RFC mean using taxpayers' money to get into that risky business...