Word: lente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Knowing that some Americans would find these comparisons beside the point, British Ambassador Lord Halifax took another line. He said that Britain's 47 million people could not live unless they exported to pay for imports and they could not export in prewar quantities unless the U.S. lent them money for ships and machines. Without a loan, Britain would struggle along as best she could, trading within her own sterling area. Result: U.S. and world trade would suffer...
...products was the Radiation Laboratory at Cambridge, Mass. According to M.I.T.'s President Karl Compton, it was "the biggest research organization in the history of the world." Beginning in the fall of 1940, when the nation's top physicists began to gather in a few offices lent by M.I.T., the Laboratory quietly took over a milk plant, a shoe-polish factory, an airport. Eventually, it grew to a team of 3,800, including 700 physicists, twice as many as worked on the atomic bomb...
John L Sullivan,*Assistant Secretary of the Navy (and rumored successor to Secretary Forrestal), lent an influential hand to the rescue of a disabled sloop off the New Hampshire shore. Weekending at Little Boars Head, he reported the craft's plight to the Portsmouth Navy Yard, and a Navy tug towed the sloop ashore...
...ferry service and the Gulf Atlantic Transportation Co. are the logical outgrowth of a small coastal barge and towing service which Williams joined only three years ago. It has been so well managed and profitable (net profits last year: $100.000) that the Florida National Bank of Jacksonville lent him $1.5 million to help finance his ferry company. The Mills Industries Inc. (juke boxes, pinball machines, etc.) may put up $1 million in exchange for a stock interest and the amusement, bar and dining concessions on Williams' ferries. Once he has them built and operating, Hustler Williams has more plans...
...least twice as much as the old back-breaking hand method. But his big selling point was profits. Hudson told the farmers that they could make from two to four times more per acre from truck farming than they had from their conventional crop. They thought it over, then lent him 103 acres to try to prove it-a few acres from each farm...