Word: lends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought they were worth, at a price above the asking." When, in 1914, cotton went to four cents a pound, he worked hundreds of builders day and night to put up a 44-acre warehouse. Then he signed full-page advertisements in the press saying that he would lend six cents a pound on every pound of cotton stored in his warehouse. His storage charge was ludicrously low; his insurance rate lower than any other storehouse in the world. Millions of dollars' worth of cotton poured in. The owners he had saved from bankruptcy sold their cotton later...
...this month, a detachment of Royal Alabarderos, guards, will lend color and protection to the $30,000,000 Spanish exhibit...
...there will be a civilized government in Russia or when we shall have ended this present pretense of friendly relations with men who are seeking our overthrow. . . . "What folly Lloyd George committed when he brought these Russian intriguers into our midst! . . . "I have to add this warning. Persons who lend money to Russia, as they are entitled to do, must be alive to the risks they run and understand that, in no circumstances, will the British Treasury accept any responsibility if they are defrauded...
...Herriot, most potent of French party-coalition leaders but widely discounted as a statesman, had it in his power: 1) To lend impregnable strength of a Poincaré-Briand-Herriot government; 2) To frustrate completely M. Briand's efforts by holding himself and his cohorts aloof...
...Finally he made his predicament public. He retained Lawyers Dudley Field Malone and Clarence Darrow to help him find the necessary capital. Offers began to flow in from people who were willing to lend to a Vanderbilt. It was a peculiar situation?"first aid to a Vanderbilt...