Word: lended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washington is willing to bend, but only a bit. Commerce Secretary John Connor said last week that U.S. businessmen may lend and invest freely in the underdeveloped nations. The U.S. is in no mood to relax its restrictions on the 22 "developed" nations-including all of Europe as well as Japan and Australia-because it is continuing to lose gold. The nation's gold supply dropped another $250 million last week, bringing the year's loss up to $825 million and the stock at Fort Knox down to a 27-year low of $14.6 billion...
...banner year of 1957. Mexico's President Diaz Ordaz recently set a new tone by declaring: "We need and welcome private capital." In the light of anti-inflation measures in Brazil, the World Bank, in which the U.S. has the greatest stake, has agreed to lend money to that country for the first time in five years...
...cannot finish," called for a settlement guaranteed by the United Nations or a special peace-keeping force. North Dakota Democrat George McGovern said his mail has been running 15 to 1 for negotiations, said: "It is not appeasement to recognize that the problem of Southeast Asia does not lend itself to a military solution...
Alone among the major nations, the U.S. has permitted its citizens to spend, lend and invest their money freely almost anywhere in the world. This unshackled capitalism has helped dozens of foreign economies, brought the U.S. worldwide economic power and prestige, and earned considerable profit for American industry. In one sense, clearly, the free outflow of capital is a distinct asset. In another, it is an increasingly serious problem, since it is a major source of the U.S.'s payments deficit and the cause of its stepped-up loss of gold...
Given drivel which follows the plot of Laura right up to the outskirts of Fanny Hill, Director Gordon Douglas (Rio Conchos) makes surprisingly lively entertainment of it. Spirited performers also lend Sylvia a sorely needed touch of class, and Actress Baker schlumps through the role at a wry deadpan pace, obviously enjoying her buildup as Hollywood's sex queen pro tern...