Word: lente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Oliver P. Echols stated that he had made pointed "suggestions" to Meyers in 1940 that he "disassociate" himself from this company. Meyers, who protested that he had held its stock only as collateral for $34,000 worth of loans, admitted that he had not complied. Instead, he had lent the company another...
...advanced some $250,000 (later repaid by the company) in the early stages of engineering, planning and bidding. When down payments totaling $5,100,000 had to be made to the War Assets Administration, Dillon, Read's help was sought. Dillon, Read & Co., with the Browns, et al, lent Texas Eastern $1,350,000 (which they have gotten back) and brought in Reginald Hargrove, a veteran United Gas Corp. executive. Among themselves the founders and Dillon, Read divided 150,000 shares of common stock. They paid $1 a share for it and split it into 1,050,000 shares...
...friend General MacArthur, whom McCormick had known well in World War I, gave him the most lavish reception ever accorded an unofficial visitor. General MacArthur lent him his private Cadillac, dined with him twice. McCormick assured U.S. newsmen that they had avoided politics. He brushed off talk of the MacArthur-for-President drive and repeated his endorsement of Senator Taft...
...Near East, Latin America, Chinese Turkestan-always compounding generalizations to explain why human beings, provoked by weather and geography, behave as they do. He kept an eye open for such relevant material as the relation of rape to the seasons (highest in June); the proportion of non-fiction lent by U.S. public libraries (lowest in the South); the relation of climate to monotheism (it does best in deserts...
...same week La Terre said: "We are happy to note an appreciable increase in the price of milk, which rises from 9.75 to 15 francs a liter, and of butter, which is increased by 60%. Thus the authorities seem to have lent an ear to the claims we advanced on behalf of French farmers. . . . Let us hope that the new price level will become generalized for all farm products...