Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Syndicate. Between 1874 and 1910, more than 160 U.S. heiresses staged the first lend-lease program. They bestowed more than $160 million on the stately homes of England and the Continent. Some of them did worse than Ella Haggin among the cannibals. One traveled to Berlin only to find that, financially, she was the bride of a syndicate with shares in her dowry and income. Then there was a certain Lady T., who felt that her noble husband and his valet were strangely inseparable, but only when she got to the "earl's" estate did she learn that...
...come to work, Brazil is determined to lend all the support it can. "Here man is overwhelmed by the enormity of nature," says SESP Physician Carlos Guimaräes. "But we are going to make the Amazon a safe and healthy place to live. Then it can produce wealth and abundance...
...governorship, then got nabbed for conspiracy (forcing federal workers to contribute to his campaign) and was jailed. He defied the court that disqualified him as Governor, won his appeals but lost the G.O.P. 1936 primary, ran successfully as an independent. In the Senate, Maverick Langer excelled in filibusters, fought lend-lease, the U.N., NATO, the Marshall Plan, the Taft-Hartley bill and postwar draft...
Setting the Switches. Somewhere in the unhappy middle is craggy Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Anxious not to lend further credence to the charge, popular in Britain, that he is an inflexible old nationalist bent on sabotaging the peace, Adenauer is content to let his friend De Gaulle impede the headlong rush to the summit. Accepting De Gaulle's spring timing, Adenauer suggested that early rather than late spring would be better in order to keep the summit from becoming involved in next year's U.S. election...
...House of Morgan from decline and restore it once more to the first ranks of U.S. finance. Less than a year ago, J. P. Morgan & Co. was in tenth place among New York commercial banks and 28th in the U.S. It was hard pressed for enough money to lend its rapidly increasing number of customers. Then Alexander pulled off a coup that Wall Street dubbed "Jonah swallowing the whale." He worked out a merger with the much larger Guaranty Trust Co., became the head of the fifth largest U.S. bank.-Overnight his bank's capital funds jumped from...