Word: lents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diefenbaker quickly recovered his fighting spirit and stayed on to contest the 1963 elections-in which, says Newman, Kennedy unofficially lent the anti-Diefenbaker Liberals the services of Political Pollster Lou Harris, whose studies of Canadian voting behavior proved invaluable to Pearson...
...Argentine-controlled oil exporter, had taken as collateral for a loan to DeAngelis. There were indications that the scandal might spread beyond its present scope. At week's end a third brokerage house, D. R. Comenzo & Co., was suspended from the New York Produce Exchange; it had lent Allied $5,000,000, using as collateral warehouse receipts whose validity was now in question. From now on, other brokerage houses are sure to be stricter with their commodity clients...
Nicolin sold off unprofitable operations, reorganized divisions along product lines, reduced costly inventories and held back on hirings in order to reduce the white-collar staff by 8.2%. Result: the parent company's profits nearly doubled in two years. While accomplishing this, Nicolin was also lent out temporarily by the Wallenbergs to become president of the sick Scandinavian Airlines System. Using the same management techniques that were working at ASEA, he almost immediately cut SAS's losses of $193,000 a day. After nine months at SAS, he returned to ASEA, leaving behind an airline so revitalized that...
...film, which won the prize for the best documentary at the Moscow film festival last June, was lent to the ADA by Albert Maher '63, who brought it back from Cuba this summer. Maher was one of the fifty-nine American students who visited Cuba in deflance of State Department regulations...
Industry & Infants. Both economically and politically, the picture is mixed. All told, the donors have lent or given $13.8 billion worth of aid-with the U.S. supplying nine-tenths of the total, or nearly $12 billion. There have been some impressive results. In all recipient areas, new factories, hydroelectric plants and highways have sprouted. The recipients, sharing their own meager know-how, have trained 2,691 of one another's students in a technical exchange program. Industry has burgeoned in the plan's 13 years, is still expanding at a robust 8% annually-but in most...