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...implications were plain: Khrushchev was keenly aware of the tug of capitalist freedom. And the implications lent special weight to Dulles' words-before-the-fact definition of the basis of U.S. foreign policy. "The government which is responsive to the will of the people, which admits of diversity and freedom of thought, is the government which has the future ahead of it," he told the newsmen. "I don't put any dates on these things. I don't say what is going to happen in one year, five years, ten years, but I am confident that that...
...Manufacturers Trust, Chemical Corn Exchange, Irving Trust, and The Bank of New York all lent between 6% and 11% more money and in return had increased earnings of from 13% to nearly 19% higher than 1956's level...
...England mill town where he grew up. "I scared off three or four kids, and I was a better player than the others I couldn't scare off." In those days, Birdie's hero was a former big-league catcher named Bill Haeffner. Bill lent the youngster a mitt, and Birdie's career began. Soon he could catch the fastest pitcher on the club...
...alphabetical agencies set up during the Great Depression, none had a bigger job than the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Created under President Hoover, it lent billions of dollars to shore up shaky banks, railroads and other key institutions. Its Depression-fighting mission accomplished, RFC lived on in World War II as the Government's most powerful and versatile financial weapon. When it became obvious that Japanese aggression would cut off the U.S. from Malayan natural-rubber supplies, RFC set up and operated the nation's huge synthetic-rubber program. It organized stockpiling of strategic materials and pre-emptive buying...
Fabulous Offer. In 1936 Collector Gulbenkian lent 30 of his finest paintings to London's National Gallery, later offered the gallery all the paintings as an outright gift on condition that they be housed separately, not spread thin among the museum's other masterpieces. The offer was refused. So, soon after the war, Gulbenkian packed up his 30 pictures, added ten more masterpieces to make the parcel even more attractive, and shipped it all to Washington's National Gallery, on a loan basis...