Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing against giving her enough money to enjoy a meal in her own dining hall. Last week, Manhattan's Chase National Bank, without objection from the U.S. State Department, gave Spain its first hearty handout from the U.S. since war's end: a $25 million short-term loan, for the purchase of fertilizers and electrical equipment. The loan was a gilt-edged risk, backed by Spanish gold reserves deposited in London, which made Chase happy. Spain was happy just to have the ice so firmly broken. Crowed one Spanish negotiator: "If I refuse to do business with...
Over 600 pounds of clothing have already been collected this week in Phillips Brooks House's drive for the Salzburg Student Rest Center, but the campaign to enrich the PBH Loan Library with text-books is lagging, Anthony G. Oettinger '51, book and clothing drive chairman, reported last night...
...make-up spoon used by Egyptian belles to mix cosmetics, and the bronze cat (with the remains of the sacred original coffined inside)-also take up little room. Nonetheless, the National was sporting (for an indefinite period) the most important private collection of Egyptian art in the world-on loan from the art collection of Armenian Millionaire Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian...
...London. He has no art scouts, does all his purchasing by himself, or on the advice of a few trusted dealers. National Gallery officials would say nothing of Gulbenkian himself last week except that he was "extremely modest" and "a real connoisseur": one of the conditions of the loan was that there must be no personal publicity from the gallery on the subject of Calouste Gulbenkian...
...book drive, PBH wants all kinds of University texts for its loan library, which rents out books to needy students for 25 cents a term...