Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even those who accepted the President's explanation were pained at learning that he lent money to Mario Bolanos. Bolanos had reportedly made a lot of money out of the severe corn shortage caused by Central America's spring drought. Back in January, it appeared, Insider Bolanos found out that the government, worried about drought forecasts, planned to lift import duties on corn, Guatemala's basic foodstuff. With a Mexican and two Guatemalans as partners, he set up Comercial Guatemalteca to import corn from Mexico. What with import duties suspended and corn retailing for as much...
...have ever made in my financial history." Replied Lehman: "I am not looking for clever deals, Mr. Young." How, Lehman wanted to know, was the purchase financed? How much of their own money did they put up? The Texans borrowed the money, said Young. His Alleghany Corp. had lent $7,500,000; Alleghany's President Allan P. Kirby had anted up another $5,000,000, while a banking syndicate headed by Cleveland's Central National Bank had put up the rest. "Well," said Lehman, "as I understand it, Messrs. Richardson and Murchison did not actually...
...what he said, in a ffew words, made such an appeal to my boyish imagination that I lost little time in securing the book and reading it. Sometime later the story of her life appeared in the "Ladies Home Journal" and the wife on an American professor kindly lent it to me. I was so interested that I spoke about this most remarkable personality before the Greek Y.M.C.A. of Robert College, my Alma Mater...
...Dessert and Lent. The snail, surviving all attacks, has interested man since earliest times. Cadart tells of Stone Age people who lived almost exclusively on snails. The Greeks loved snails both gastronomically and scientifically. Aristotle described them in detail; Pliny told how the Romans cultivated them for food. In Roman Gaul, snails were served as dessert, and in medieval Europe they were raised by convents and monasteries as canonical food for Lent...
...when he took command of the 11th Airborne Division. He was born in Honesdale, Pa., graduated from West Point in 1920. His most publicized wartime experience occurred when he and General Mark Clark waded ashore before the invasion of North Africa. When Clark lost his pants, Lemnitzer lent him his. More important and much less well known is the fact that Lemnitzer, a brilliant staff planner, was one of the drafters of the NATO treaty...