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Only the Saudi Arabian princes, wearing burnooses and traveling in limousines supplied by Standard Oil, lent an exotic touch. Spotting the Arabs at the Opera House, a glamor-hungry spectator sighed: "This is more like it." For the most part the San Francisco conferees wore drab, diplomatic grey and black...
...Warren City Manufacturing Co., capitalized it for $500 ( 5 (500 shares : par value $ 1 ) . Then he bought the assets of Warren City Tank & Boiler with part of a $4,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan, 100% guaranteed by the Navy. He put in no money except $50,000 he lent the company...
Nazi airborne coups in Crete and the Low Countries opened many military eyes, and some of the U.S. Army's best brains, including Air Forces General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold and the late, great Ground Forces chief, Lieut. General Lesley J. ("Whitey") McNair, lent support and advice to the U.S. paratroop and glider program. That program really got rolling in 1942, with the setting up of two full airborne divisions...
...Great to packed Chicago houses despite the drubbings of a harsh, hostile press, drawled back at her drama-critic detractors: "The way the boys wrote up the show, I'm surprised they weren't raided. And to think I took out the stronger lines . . . on account of Lent...
...seemed that the Farm Security Administration had lent five substantial Valley farmers and businessmen $1,226,350 (payable in 50 years) to buy 26,000 neglected acres of the local delta orchard land. These salaryless "directors" were going to operate the tract on an "altruistic, nonprofit" basis, as a kind of socio-economic experiment...