Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overall muddle. The government's impotence stems partially from the problem itself: there is simply no way to dispose of surpluses quickly and cheaply and still keep up farm prices. Another cause of impotence, however, is the Administration's reluctance to increase the government's loan program on behalf of those farmers who most need help, the relatively inefficient and marginal producers. To them, amounting to one-third of the agricultural population, the Benson program offers little hope...
...will find the museum's guest of honor and newest pride: a small, gold-framed 12¾-in.-by-9½-in. painting, Le Lorgneur or The Sidelong Glance (opposite), by famed 18th-century French Painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. Filling the rest of the gallery will be a loan exhibition of some 50 paintings and drawings by such other 18th-century French painters as Pater, Lancret, Boucher and Fragonard, testimony to the fact that the tone of elegance and grace set by Watteau in his dreamlike scenes of pastoral dalliance and fétes galantes continued straight through...
Easy Credit Plan. General American President C. B. Erwin and his officers, the state charged in its suit, also engaged in "year-end window dressing" to make their annual reports look better. One device was to go to the company's bank and get a big loan for one week, show it as an asset on deposit; another was to postdate a check to another company in exchange for a check that could be immediately deposited as a cash asset...
...Manuel into operation, the Government gave Magma a strong helping hand: a $94 million loan from the RFC, fast tax write-offs on plant and railroad, and a price prop at 24? a Ib. With copper now selling at 43? a Ib., Magma's rough-and-ready President Wesley P. Goss had plenty of reason to fire up San Manuel ahead of schedule. Says he: "When you have more than $100 million tied up, you are interested in getting into production as quickly as possible and getting some of those dollars back...
...moon, and the star. To these can be added other sources of inspiration. From Cubism, Art Nouveau, Surrcalism, he borrowed eclectically. But when the literary and formal sources were exhausted he returned to the materials themselves for suggestions. This is one of the late developments noticeable in the loan collection from the Pierre Matisse Gallery at the M.I.T. library...