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...Pakistanis it was bad enough that Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge had toured India and returned to their countries saying kind words about India's problems. But when the U.S. announced last month that it would lend India a whopping $225 million for its second five-year development program, Pakistan's Prime Minister Malik Firoz Khan Noon erupted...
...many other areas, money is still so tight that bankers see no reason to cut interest rates and thus reduce their profits. Denver's bankers, who normally lend out only 30% to 35% of their deposits, are running at 55% of deposits, are only able to take care of their best customers. Dallas banks have more borrowers than there is money to lend. Says President Benjamin Wooten of Dallas' First National Bank: "We're not going to drop our prime rate. Supply and demand should be the governing factors in the cost of money...
...mighty available Jones around all channels these days, blinked and "poo-poo-pa-dooed" through some excruciating jokes ("Are you Ivy?" "It's crawlin' all over me") and brayed his inimitable full-octave singing quaver. Digging into Broadway's attic of old goodies, Omnibus borrowed Lend an Ear's funny, picture-hatted Gladiola ("Skiddy, give me some hooch") Girl and a rollicking Prohibition Era chorus line to vamp the Long Island playboys...
...huge, showy line from a humble beginning. The Soviet state put it together in 1923 from remnants of the revolution's Red air force. In the 1930s Stalin purged some of Aeroflot's best brains, but in World War II he outfitted Aeroflot with hundreds of U.S. lend-lease Dakotas (DC-3s), started to expand it fast to open up underdeveloped Russian areas that had no roads or rail lines...
...Security & Realty Corp.; invested in Chrysler in the '205, was soon a member of the board of directors of the Bank of Manhattan, Continental Oil Co. and more than a dozen other large industrial and financial corporations. Wartime ("dollar-a-year") special assistant to the administrator of the lend-lease program, later director of its British Empire branch, prominent Roman Catholic Layman Griffin was longtime (1947-57) president of the English-Speaking Union and co-chairman of the American Fund...