Word: lent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Export-Import Bank has lent it $1.5 million, and the Venezuelan government (which stands to save $3.3 million a year in foreign exchange through INSA's operations...
...Fenway, stands as a monument to the success of the acquisitive instinct in art collecting. According to the rather peculiar terms of Mrs. Gardner's will, the collection can not be added to or rearranged, nor can any work be removed, nor is anything permitted to be lent to other museums...
piled up as a result of the movement of capital out of Europe inspired by World War II. But the hoard is dwindling fast because the U.S., since the war. has spent, lent and invested more abroad than it has taken in. Despite a healthy trade surplus, the U.S. has pumped so much into postwar foreign aid and military spending overseas (total: more than $100 billion) that its balance of payments has run a net deficit of $20 billion over the past decade. Fort Knox has onlv $4.7 billion left to go before it breaks through the $11.7 billion floor...
...Saigon airfield a steady stream of huge Globemasters unloads tons of electric generators, radar equipment, trucks and Quonset huts. More than 80 H21 Shawnee helicopters at four airbases are serviced by U.S. ground crews, flown by U.S. pilots-including such colorful types as Lieut. Colonel Archie Clapp, who has lent his name to his squadron, "Archie's Angels." The converted aircraft carrier Core steams regularly upriver to Saigon, carrying men, munitions and more helicopters. The 1,000-mile stretch of the South Viet Nam coast, from the 17th Parallel to the Camau Peninsula, is patrolled by ships...
Twining & Twisting. A more conventional setting for a royal fling was the Dutch luxury liner Oranje, which its owners lent to Queen Juliana for an evening cruise along the North Sea Canal. Sporting $12 million worth of jewelry, the titled guests were joined midway by 180 college friends of Juliana's four daughters. Among the friends: a 25-year-old lawyer, Bob Steensma, who has often been photographed holding hands and drinking wine with Princess Beatrix, 24, heiress apparent to the Dutch throne...