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Harry S. Truman gladdened the heart of a Washington visitor who admired his silver-streaked black bow tie. The visitor -Connecticut Publisher William J. Pape -yearned for one just like it. But there was none, said the President; he therefore lent the tie to Pape for a night. White House Secretary Charles Ross took pains to keep things quite clear. "He has it on loan," he emphasized. "We expect him to return...
...Reconstruction Finance Corp. lent $9,000,000 to Carthage Hydrocol, Inc., to build a $19,000,000 plant near Brownsville to make gasoline from natural gas. Behind Carthage Hydrocol are eight large companies,* which were willing to risk $10,000,000 of their own cash, and Texas-born Percival Cleveland ("Dobie") Keith, the red-faced, hurry-up man who bossed the construction of the famed atom-bomb plant at Oak Ridge...
...blue-gowned but urbane Chen, once a revolutionary and after that Kuomintang Minister of Industry and Commerce, did not lose the polite composure that had lent an oddly gracious note to his trial. Bowing, he had told the court: "Whatever judgment your honor may pass on me, I will not appeal...
...growth of this former Chemistry professor into a world figure will emphasize two conditions that lend perspective to what has happened. First, Conant is a leading chemist in an age that has given a favored place to men ow science; second, his achievements as President of Harvard University have lent only minor impetus, both quantitatively and qualitatively, to the growth of the Conant legend...
Every Friday in Lent a mule without a head, mula sem cabeça, flies around Brazilian back-country towns, terrifying the peasants. With every movement of the trees, with every blowing paper, people stand still, sure they have seen the mula. At night they hear it bray and gallop over the roofs. Until recently, the phantom mule was the only extraterrestrial thrill most Brazilians ever...