Word: loan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aboard a shiny Soviet TU-IO4 jet airliner, General Amer flashed back to Cairo to take the word to President Nasser. Next day Cairo's press blared that the Soviet Union had granted Egypt a $175 million loan, and that Industry Minister Aziz Sidky would leave shortly for Moscow to negotiate detailed projects for building docks, drydocks and an automobile assembly plant, plus developing minerals and supplying tractors and machinery. "This is what Russian aid will do for you," explained Al Akhbar in a fine burst of reckless accounting. "It will find you and your son a job because...
...illuminations, medieval illustrations in book form, are, perhaps, most welcome, since it is these one ordinarily has least opportunity to see. Important canvases in private collections usually find their way to loan exhibitions, but such treasures as these, difficult to exhibit, rarely get a chance to circulate. Done throughout Europe at a time when art and life were by no means considered independent entities, these subtle masterpieces of the late middle ages and early renaissance possess the virtue of being eternally modern...
...called on the Chief Cabinet Secretary, persuaded the government to postpone enforcement of the law until April 1958. Zensei spoke with the air of an organization representing men of stature in the community. Some of its 35,000 members serve in provincial and municipal assemblies; others are directors of loan associations, better business bureaus, even P.T.A.s. A Zensei-sponsored petition protesting the law's enforcement was signed by 40,000 citizens, including 63 mayors, 151 chamber-of-commerce presidents and 25 local Liberal Democratic leaders...
...killingly funny, but this time the whimsy is too flimsy. The rich uncle of the title (Charles Coburn) pays a visit to his nephew-(Nigel Patrick), a spectacularly impecunious peer - long on tradition and short on port. Wouldn't dream of "imposing" on his uncle for a loan. Heavens, no. Only decent thing to do is to murder the old boy. But every time the nephew baits a trap, who gets caught? The paying customer...
Private credit sources have joined with an alumni fund at the Columbia Graduate School of Business to provide a unique part-loan, part-aid scholarship plan now in full-scale operation...