Word: loan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shot at the Senator? Kaiser fancied that he had three very good reasons: 1) he had been fired from his policeman's job in April and a Bricker appointee had taken his place; 2) when he had been wiped out in the crash of an Ohio building & loan firm 15 years ago, the name of Ohio's then Attorney General, John Bricker, had appeared on all the papers that spelled his financial ruin; 3) Bricker had done nothing to help him get his job or his money back...
...many simple necessities, and particularly hard-hit in foodstuffs and clothing, the British masses not only know of the plenty that exists in America, but, more important, are in the psychologically unsound position of being at the receiving end of countless gifts, ranging from individual parcels to the US Loan. Not to be overlooked either as catalysts in forming this conscious or unconscious attitude are the American views toward Palestine and the sight of new Buicks and Packards in Grosvenor Square...
Five have disconnected their telephones as the first move in elaborate fall marital preparations. One summed up the group attitude with the view that it was easier to face married life with a college degree to loan on. All agreed it would be easier to diaper junior with hands free from a Hymarx Outline...
...Rentschler, who had resigned as president of Wright Aeronautical Corp., started Pratt & Whitney in a rented plant on a $250,000 loan. Four years later he moved into top position when P. & W. merged with Vought, Hamilton and Sikorsky...
...motive power for the whole effort will be money, American money, and recent statements envisage amounts running into the tens of billions. These plans must face the scrutiny of a Congress which had a hard time swallowing the British loan, and is constantly tightening its purse strings. Nor will the recent squabbles with the President improve the chances of a program which must be considered administration-inspired, even with a non-partisan Secretary of State at the helm. The proposals will only too likely involve partisan politics, an inescapable danger with 1948 elections already tugging at the parties. Only...