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...weather, topography, disposition of the natives. Three years later, on an aerial survey of the projected route, his pilot got lost, ran out of gas, made a forced landing in the wilderness. Airman Blotner might still be there if a Brazilian geographic expedition hadn't happened along, lent him some gas which got his ship to Belem...
...heat-stricken audience and the Duke & Duchess began their first official task, shaking black and white hands. Then the Governor and his lady waved to the people of their domain from a balcony and drove off to get a long cool drink at Government House. Already the Duke had lent Nassau a helping hand. In Manhattan. Eastern Steamship Lines reported a boom in tourist bookings of Americans who wanted to visit the islands...
...last week lent Wright Aeronautical Corp. $92,000,000 to build a whole new airplane engine factory near Cincinnati (see p. 77). Day before, Henry Morgenthau Jr. had authorized (for tax purposes) a five-year amortization of such plants if the land is taken on lease. Thus was cracked, perhaps broken, one of Defense expansion's chief bottlenecks-the reluctance of manufacturers to go on a long-term hook for new war-term capacity...
...would have to come to terms with the Empire for the use of the fleet in a coordinated plan to control the seas. The U. S. has not lent its fleet for the defense of Britain, and Britain would be less than sensible if she lent her fleet for the defense of the U. S. without at least some guarantee that the U. S. would become the open ally of the Empire. The U. S. has not the force to undertake the defense not only of Canada and the British West Indies (which it must defend anyhow...
...year of the Big Blizzard, German Immigrant Louis Blaustein landed in New York with 50? in his pocket, lent it to a needy cousin, headed for Baltimore. From a one-horse wagon he peddled cans of kerosene, soon got a job with John D. Rockefeller's up-&-coming Standard Oil Co. When he quit to go into business himself in 1910, he was rich enough to buy a one-horse tank wagon, and sell gasoline from the rear end while his son Jacob drove...