Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same kind of scuffle dusts up the question of how the surpluses shall be paid for. FOA and the State Department like arrangements that help foreign nations develop their resources, e.g., Peru's recent $3,630,000 loan from the U.S., to buy wheat and butter, included $2,000,000 to complete a huge irrigation system. The Defense Department and the Treasury prefer deals by which foreign currencies help defray U.S. costs abroad. But not surprisingly, countries where the U.S. has military bases or expensive economic missions figure that the U.S. will have to pay its expenses anyway...
...will range from $100 (for one room, dressing room, kitchenette and bath) to $700 (for a twelve-room apartment). To be built in 18 months, the glass cities will cost an estimated $25 million, partially financed by an $11 million, 20-year Equitable Life Assurance Society mortgage, a record loan for apartment construction in Chicago...
Rouault first painted The Old King in 1916, kept it in his studio, reworking and retouching it until 1936, when it was bought by Rouault's taskmaster and agent, Art Dealer Ambroise Vollard. On loan to Pittsburgh's Carnegie International show when Vollard died in 1939, it was bought by contributions of Pittsburgh art patrons and given to the Carnegie Institute's permanent collection. Since then it has steadily grown in popularity, more than three years ago became the museum's public favorite...
...epitome of Oriental magnificence." Said another critic: "It is as though the whole sorrow of mankind were concentrated on the old king." Whoever the king, he speaks in many languages to many willing subjects. Since the Carnegie acquired the painting 15 years ago, it has been on loan 23 times, including trips abroad to Amsterdam, Paris and Milan, has traveled in all more than 55,000 miles...
After this, the confidence-man's masquerades multiply fast. He appears as a businessman and shakes down a merchant for a loan, by convincing him that he is an old acquaintance. He gulls a sympathetic gentleman with a billion-dollar worldwide relief scheme ("Missions I would quicken with the Wall Street spirit"). Ever extolling the power of positive thinking, the confidence-man takes the form of an herb doctor with a cure-all called the Omni-Balsamic Reinvigorator ("Health is good, and nature cannot work...