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Last December he asked the RFC (which does not lend money when private capital is available) for a loan of $70 million. If he gets it, he can pay off the insurance companies, and use $20 million to tide himself over while he does his utmost to develop new fields at New Ulm and Collins Lake. If the RFC refuses him? Glenn McCarthy might have to surrender some of his empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: King of the Wildcatters | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...gambling joint and on the other by one of the biggest sporting houses in New York. I'm told it housed as many as 60 girls." He came to be a respected friend to both girls and gamblers; sometimes dead-broke streetwalkers "timidly would . . . ask: 'Will you lend me a dollar, Reverend?' And I always would." Once, he remembers, a prostitute new to the district asked him coyly: "Anything doing tonight?" Replied he: "No, but I am Pastor Ransom . . . and if you ever get sick or in trouble and have no one to turn to, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Confessions of a Bishop | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...loans? The New York World-Telegram and the Sun was ready with a loud no. RFC has already lent $15 million for oil development to the Texmass Petroleum Corp. and, said the Telly, apparently RFC doesn't know that private "oil-country banks have plenty of money to lend ... If it is a good loan, how did the RFC get a chance at it? If it is not a good loan, what does the RFC mean using taxpayers' money to get into that risky business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Thorny Money | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...would use the machinery. Though such full disclosure is a standard requirement for World Bank loans, C.D.C. Chairman Lord Trefgarne thought the requirement "too onerous," forthwith canceled the request for the loan. Said World Bank Chairman Eugene Black: "I think it is perfectly reasonable to request that, when we lend money to buy machinery, we get to see what they are going to do with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Bitter Cherry | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Hundreds of newspapers repeated this fascinating Trueism; Frank Edwards,Wal-ter Winchell, Lowell Thomas and other radio commentators trumpeted it over the air. Denials from Washington had little effect, though an Air Force spokesman stated: "Air Force studies of 'flying saucers' lend no support to the view that they may come from another planet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Visitors from Venus | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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