Word: lents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leadership, worked night and day to make a debris-filled, dilapidated building into a theater. They dug into their pockets to buy needed materials, and subsisted primarily on sandwiches. To add to the problems, articles valued at over $600 were stolen from them-personally owned items which they had lent to enrich the program. Car damage in excess of $800 was sustained by one of the volunteer teachers...
...Huntlands was lent to the Government by its millionaire Texas owners, George and Herman Brown, who are friends of Vice President Lyndon Johnson...
Challenge for Competitors. Private U.S. money is now helping Siemens to push the biggest expansion program in its history. In the first major private loan by U.S. financiers to a German firm since the war. a group of twelve lending institutions headed by Morgan Stanley and Arnhold & Bleichroeder have lent Siemens $25 million as part of its two-year, $250 million expansion (much of which will be paid for out of profits). With expanded plant, Siemens intends to give stiffer competition in world markets to its three bigger U.S. competitors−General Electric. Western Electric and Westinghouse...
...aspect of motion pictures offering so much, one wonders why writers try so hard to work clever lines into modern day comedy. When the silent picture comedies - obviously built around the visual aspect - gave way to the talkies, the devices of slapstick, film speed-up and character expression still lent the most to the humor that was involved...
...sign, it is only because he believes that he needs a new image. By insisting that he was never an extremist on either side ("I am not a captive of any extremists of any viewpoint"), he is countering the welter of criticism with considerable success. He stands an excel lent chance of winning a majority in next week's primary or, if not then, in a runoff election that would probably follow. Old Tiger Faubus may have lost his teeth, but in Arkansas there seems to be no lion in the streets strong enough to threaten him seriously...