Word: lende
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...rating should confront the applicant. The Student Council-AVC housing committee-which by the College's own claim did yeoman work in investigating commuter hardship cases-should be brought into the confidence of those making allocations. Just as the looser critics of the housing powers-that-be could well lend a patient car to the full scope of the issue, so those in authority can not afford to lean complacently back with the gym-dwelling's finale at hand...
Britain was struggling in the economic pit. France was stumbling toward it. Germany lay almost prone in it. China staggered on with no one to lend a helping hand...
...that you will forgive me for suggesting the other day at Southport that you should take the gold out of Fort Knox. It does not seem to have been a very popular speech in America." While the diners laughed, Bevin continued: "Well, I do not mind whether it is Lend-Lease or that [gold], but all I say is this, that you can't get settlement in the world unless you get these economic conditions right...
...after Bevin's casual reference to Lend-Lease, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton made a not-so-casual plea for crisis aid from the International Bank (whose staff calls its present quarters, one of London's deepest air-raid shelters, "the second Fort Knox"). Bank President John J. McCloy pointed out that the Bank was designed to make only commercially sound loans, attractive to private investors, and not to grant emergency aid not likely to be repaid...
...from the U.S. The U.S. is hardly less interested in the subject than the Latins themselves. Since 1942, the U.S. has sent south $796 million in Lend-Lease and Export-Import Bank loans; Latin America is peppered with U.S. technicians lent to help the other republics strengthen their economies. So Secretary of State George Marshall understood that Bodet spoke sound doctrine in his conference speech. But the U.S. wanted a defense treaty first. It would then be willing and ready to tackle economic problems at the Bogota conference next January. The U.S. view seemed likely to-prevail. At week...