Word: lents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soil and help the crops grow.' " But in eight months the city kibbutzers had cleared 185 acres and planted potatoes, beans, barley and other grains. Their potato crop astonished local government agriculture experts, and they have done so well with their other crops that government agencies have lent them better land, banks are considering loans, and property values in the neighborhood are on the rise...
...unknown, once scooped up 60 Soutines at an average of $50 apiece, acquired some of the world s finest Matisses and assembled the most impressive group of Cézannes outside the Louvre. His collection was to include everyone from Tintoretto to El Greco to Picasso. In 1923 Barnes lent some of his modern prizes to an exhibition in Philadelphia. When the critics and Main Liners howled in derision, Barnes decided to keep the gates closed to the general public...
...Jenkins was in a position to swallow an entire $5,000,000 issue of bonds by the Mexican government's holding corporation, Nacíonal Financiera, without apparent strain. When a projected four-lane highway from Mexico City to Querétaro lagged for lack of funds, Jenkins lent the contractors $25.6 million to finish the job, while at the same time offering the government $80 million to help finance a new superhighway from Puebla to Mexico City. Among his reported holdings today: the Bank of Commerce, textile mills, cement plants, an automobile assembly plant, finance companies...
...Robert E. McCarthy Jr., former branch manager of Detroit's Bank of the Commonwealth, took $500,000 out of the treasuries of the Teamster organizations in Detroit and deposited the money in a non-interest-bearing account in an Orlando, Fla. bank. The bank in turn lent money to Sun Valley, Inc.-a land development company of which Henry Lower is president. The company then bought up Florida lots at about $18 apiece, and with Hoffa's help began promoting the land as a haven for retired and aging Teamsters-selling the lots at prices ranging from...
...Brazilian Amazon Development Agency lent him $125,000 to start his rubber and Brazil nut groves, but since they take seven years before they bear fruit, he planted sugar cane for a quicker crop. It grew fast- 18 ft. high. To make the most of it he had to process it into a product he could sell locally. Friends in Texas dug up $30,000 to build the distillery...