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Willie took this job. In return the movie magnates were very good to Willie Bioff. They sent him and his wife to Europe and South America. Joe Schenck lent him $100,000 to buy an alfalfa farm, gave him $8,000 after a good evening at poker, gave him also a sun cabinet to sweat away his belly and a portrait inscribed "To my friend Willie." It was wonderful...
...Cohen became a credit man, then developed a new angle of his own. He bought into small insurance companies, pyramided their stocks on the rising market. After the crash he bought more, paying the book value of their shares (higher than the market) on condition he be lent the money to buy out the other stockholders. By 1932 he controlled companies with assets...
...turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me." The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the market place and he saw Death standing in the crowd and he went to Death and said...
...total manufacturing load is forecast as far ahead as possible; 2) a Methods Department determines what operations must be undertaken by Sperry itself; 3) the remainder are turned over to a Subcontracting Department which, on showings made on educational orders, farms them out. Full technical assistance is lent subcontractors; so sometimes is money...
...Mercantile Marine Co. has carried more passengers than any other U.S. line, operated crack ocean greyhounds like the Leviathan, Washington, Manhattan, America. But last week, with a $11,469,000 bond issue due Oct. 1, I.M.M. did not have nearly enough cash to meet it. Suddenly RFC jumped in, lent I.M.M. enough to pay off the entire issue...