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According to Baker, Kerr at once promised personally to lend him $50,000, advanced him $10,000 of it forthwith and arranged an additional $250,000 line of credit from an Oklahoma City bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: Dead Men Tell No Tales | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...giant combines, will henceforth be grown on uneconomical 40-acre plots by government decree. Not even the weather has cooperated with the Baath: 1966 brought a crop failure that severely cut wheat and cotton production and drained Damascus of precious foreign exchange. Western banks have almost unanimously refused to lend further money. To try to recoup some cash, Jadid recently cut the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline through Syria and attempted to blackmail his Arab neighbor into giving him $100 million -a price that Iraq has refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Syria: To the Left, March | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

...related question is how much organized crime depends on at least one major market in which the returns to tight and complex organization are large enough to support a dominant monopoly firm or cartel. Not all businesses lend themselves to centralized organization; some do, and these may provide the nucleus of well-financed entrepreneurship and the extension of organizational talent into other businesses that would not, alone, support or give rise to an organized monopoly or cartel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIME and ECONOMICS: | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...week visit to the U.S. left French Author François Sagan, 31, with a certain smile. "In America, they trust you," she wrote in the weekly Candide. "They will lend you their cars, their apartments, anything. They are so open that it's troubling. The taxi driver tells you his life story, salesgirls call you 'honey.'" Hélas, she also found much tristesse: "Americans are afraid, afraid of everything, especially of losing their position, of being sick, of not being able to pay their installments on time. And of their redoubtable women they are afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 30, 1966 | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

Relying mostly on character instead of credit to judge who should get its largesse, the SBA in 22 months has lent $25,281,230 to 2,475 borrowers in 44 communities. Though defaults have come to 3.4% of that total as compared with a mere 0.2% in commercial bank lending, the agency calls itself "pleasantly surprised" that the record is not worse. Even so, some critics complain that the SBA has taken some mighty peculiar risks. A service station folded because the owner wasn't around enough to keep track of the operation. A small manufacturer of plastics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Policy: Helping the Poor to Be Boss | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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