Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this might be a doubtful blessing. The Agriculture Department's price-support division already holds as surplus 2,750,000 tons of sorghum outright and under loan...
...while the assets of America's 100 biggest corporations grew by about 160%, the banks' capacity to lend money did not keep pace. As a result, they began to lose vast chunks of business to insur ance companies. One answer was to merge, enlarge the permissible loan limit (usually limited, for one customer, to about 10% of total capital funds). Thus, when Dallas First National merged with the National Bank, its permissible loan limit jumped mightily, making it better able to supply the cash for Texas' fast-growing industries...
...poor country but a proud one. When the Queen said that Greece needed tourist business, it suddenly occurred to me that someone should organize a cruise." Suiting the action to the thought, yeasty, 72-year-old Elsa went to work, talked Greek Shipping Magnate Stavros Niarchos into the loan of the new liner Achilleus, and assembled a likely guest list. The Queen of the Hellenes, who herself went cruising last year on the Achilleus' sister ship Agamemnon (TIME. Sept. 13, 1954), was not invited. "I decided not to have any Greeks," said Elsa. "because there's no point...
...Accept any gift, loan or entertainment that tends to influence the performance of official duty...
From the start, most newlyweds find credit easy to get. Many of them, instead of renting an apartment, get a Government-insured loan to buy a house and pay for it in small monthly installments. The monthly payments, which they consider savings and investment as well as housing cost, can also take care of taxes and insurance. From a furniture store they can get a living-room set at $15 a month, and from the appliance man a freezer for $8.29 a month. If they want a power mower, some hardware dealers will sell them one for a few dollars...