Word: loan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be forced to line up still closer with Soviet Russia. Last week this warning produced results. In Britain a bill was on its way through Parliament which will enable the Government to extend sizable export credits to China. From the U. S. also came a $25,000,000 loan (much of which undoubtedly will be used to buy U. S. trucks and motor parts) granted by the New Deal's Export-Import Bank-interpreted as the U. S. answer to Japan's slamming the once open door to U. S. commerce in the occupied regions. Another boost...
Fidelity was founded by Joseph Fry Paull as a loan company in Wheeling, W. Va. 27 years ago, later bought an annuity bond business, now has branches in 57 cities with 2,000 salesmen in the field selling certificates with a face value of some $6,000,000 every month. Carmi Thompson has been president for only three years. Actual boss is Founder Paull's son-in-law, onetime Assistant U. S. Attorney General John Marshall, whose family are the biggest stockholders. Sleek, bright-eyed Mr. Marshall, who is chairman of the board, said Fidelity would fight...
...Resettlement Administration protests that I am too affluent for their consideration! They will loan only when all other avenues are closed. Since I am in operation I haven't reached my dead...
...French savings banks during November 1938, than November 1937. In 1936 the Government had to borrow 30,000,000,000 francs to meet its deficit, in 1937, 40,000,000,000. This year M. Reynaud said he would get by with only a 35,000,000,000 franc loan. The Finance Minister summed up optimistically. "We are entering upon an era of rehabilitation of the public finances...
...Over Lightly, Princeton's Triangle Club wanted two pandas, unsuccessfully petitioned the New York and Chicago zoos for the only two in captivity. Replied Dr. William Reid Blair of the New York Zoological Park: "Your suggestion . . . raised my blood pressure to an alarming degree. You may have the loan of my wife's crown jewels, but the panda is out of the question...