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Yielding a point himself, Rayburn offered a compromise. Instead of an outright gift, the U.S. would lend India $190 million on easy terms to buy the necessary 2,000,000 long tons of grain. The terms would be left up to ECA (probably 35 years to pay at 2½% interest), and India could repay the loan in strategic materials such as monazite (a source of fissionable thorium), jute and manganese...
...pair of shoes. She need not have been surprised: it was just another Pioneer sales promotion stunt. "We'll do anything for a customer," says Pioneer's Founder and Chairman William F. Long. "We'll get him a hotel room, rent him a car, lend him a horse, tend the baby, or run errands...
...what it has to offer the West. Oil-rich Iran proved itself anti-Communist back in 1946 when it resisted Russian attempts to grab some of its territory; so it seemed a fine idea for the United States to send money and experts there. But in deciding to lend an unqualified helping hand to Iran, this country found itself supporting a corrupt and unpopular government, one which consistently ignored the social and economic wretchedness of its people. For this hasty action the United States was bound to pay a price...
...lend-lease plan under which McHale worked began as an idea of T. S. Matthews, editor of TIME. In London one day last spring, Matthews had a talk with Geoffrey Crowther, editor of the Economist. Crowther agreed to give one of our writers "house room," but modestly insisted that he saw no way in which TIME would benefit. Matthews replied that he'd take the chance. So began McHale's tour of duty on the 117-year-old British publication...
...does not necessarily follow that a refusal to lend aid to the spread of Communist propaganda is a suppression of freedom of speech and thought...