Word: loan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Educational Television series called Your Dollar's Worth. Screened in different cities at different times, it specializes in consumer reports without sensationalizing the findings. With the help of a hard-digging staff, Executive Producer Harry McCarthy has examined misleading drug and gasoline advertising, exposed crooked TV repairmen and loan sharks, educated viewers on how to buy a used car or a house. Last week the program launched its second season of monthly reports. The first topic was the cosmetics trade...
There are signs that the tide may be turning now, thanks in part to a $103.5 million government loan fund for modernization and $600 million in easy credit for British shipowners to buy British. Lloyd's Register of Shipping reported last week that as of Sept. 30, some 1,300,000 tons, representing 10% of world total, were under construction in British yards v. Japan's 4,200,000 tons, or 31.6%. While that is still a rather wide gap, Sir John Hunter, 55, head of the Swan Hunter Group of shipbuilders on the Tyne, says...
...colonels, have responded with surprisingly moderate pressure. The Common Market's legislative branch warned the Greek government that the European Community will cease its association with Greece unless democratic structures and political trade-union freedoms are restored. The Market has rejected a Greek request for a $50 million development loan, but that is the least of the junta's worries. Its own irresponsibility in financial matters, coupled with the inevitable decline in the tourist business and foreign markets, is returning the nation to the economic depression and semi-feudal society which it sought to escape...
...stock to be issued by the new organization, the Lebanese government 25%, Qatar sheiks 7%, Lebanese depositors most of the balance. U.S. taxpayers also stand to gain from the rescue. The Agriculture Department's Commodity Credit Corporation, which had $22 million in Intra as an export loan to help dispose of surplus U.S. grain, will receive a 13% stock interest. The C.C.C. also gets first claim on Intra's U.S. assets, including its shuttered Manhattan branch (which will be liquidated), a 27-story Fifth Avenue skyscraper and revenues from the Warner Bros, spy film, Triple Cross...
...reiterated his plea to Congress to enact his tax bill and cut expenditures. "I know it is not a popular thing for a President to do-to ask anyone for a penny out of a dollar to pay for a war that is not popular," Johnson told savings-and-loan officials in an off-the-cuff talk. "If I were concerned only with my own popularity or my own poll, that wouldn't be the way I would go about it-to suggest higher taxes or more wars. But you have to do what is responsible, and you have...