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...Jaunty Broadway Showman Mike Todd announced that he is planning to film Tolstoy's War and Peace next year in Yugoslavia and that Dictator Marshal Tito has agreed to lend 70,000 Yugoslavian troops as extras. A few days later, David O. (Gone With the Wind) Selznick chuckled as he reminded the world that he and Writer Ben Hecht were planning the very same film. Said Selznick: "I, too, have been contacted by the Yugoslavian government. However, I doubt that Tito's troops are uniformed and equipped in the manner of the armies of Bonaparte and Alexander...
...free society it is normal that the developed countries lend money to the underdeveloped countries. Our United States, in its early days, was partially developed by European capital. Today, it is the United States which has the most capital available to help to develop other countries. We must find a way to put it to work...
...check that Rice had made out to Patrick on the very day of his death. They were also puzzled when Patrick announced he had other checks that equaled Rice's entire New York deposits. Meanwhile, a Texas firm reported that Rice had promised to lend it $250,000, but that amount had never come. Was it just a coincidence that the sum Rice had turned over to Patrick just before he died amounted to exactly...
...always get a loan-when you don't need one. While this may have been true in the past, bankers are now rapidly changing their ways. The main reason is that some of their major functions are being usurped by some hard-selling upstarts eager to lend money. They are the nation's 6,000 savings and loan associations, which represent the fastest-growing financial business in the U.S. As their name implies, savings and loan associations have two main functions: 1) to help people save their money, 2) to supply mortgage loans for house buyers...
With the great postwar building boom, pension trustees are beginning to lend money on big office buildings, shopping centers and housing developments. Other companies are turning to well-paying corporate bonds to provide an increasing flow of new money for industrial expansion. While few companies invest in their own stocks (some even have specific rules against it), Sears, Roebuck has put 60% of its $600 million fund into its own shares, much of the other 40% into mortgages on its 696 U.S. stores...