Word: loan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High on the thank-you list were the stern critics of U.S. foreign policy: Florida's Senator Claude Pepper, who wanted to scuttle the Greek-Turkish loan; barnstorming Henry Wallace, who wanted to substitute a loan for Russia; and Biographer Elliott (As He Saw It) Roosevelt...
...mahogany concession worth $400,000 a year. But the slickest parlay is in cattle. The biggest cattle raiser in the Republic, the Benefactor operates the most modern slaughterhouse, and sets his own price on all cattle sold in the country. The slaughterhouse, built with an Export-Import Bank loan, nominally belongs to the state; so do the ships that carry Trujillo's beef to their Puerto Rican markets. Dominican soldiers load the ships for Trujillo. They also milk the cows on his model 200,000-acre ranch, La Fundacion...
...Senators had ransacked their souls, and the day was at hand. The opposition to the Greek-Turkish loan had shaken down into the extreme Left (worried about the U.S. moral position) and the extreme Right (worried about the U.S. purse). For the fainthearted, Secretary of State George Marshall cabled from Moscow that the program had his full support...
...first housing administrator. Moffett suggested that the U.S. give Ibn Saud the $6,000,000 for five years. Aramco would pay it off by delivery of oil to the U.S. Navy. The deal fell through. But soon after, said Moffett (and a letter from Jesse Jones, then Federal Loan chief, seemed to back him up), Ibn Saud got his money from the British, who had been asked to pass it along to the King out of funds they were receiving from...
While the AVC-sponsored advances were intended only for graduate students, officers of the group reported that undergraduates referred to the University loan office found regulations there much relaxed, as the College acted to meet the financial crisis facing veterans...