Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week. Because of lagging coffee exports, the country was desperately short of dollars. Fortnight ago. the government cut the minimum coffee-export price from 65.7? a lb. to 53.8?-a measure that should eventually revive exports and bring in more dollars. Meanwhile, Brazil urgently needed a stopgap dollar loan. Heeding the call for help, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Henry Holland interrupted his visit to Cuba with Vice President Richard Nixon, flew to Rio. In less than 24 hours, Washington's Export-Import Bank announced a new $75 million credit to Brazil to finance essential imports from...
Last week Director Boone, 65 and ailing, prepared to step down after four years on the job. His hand-picked successor: Dr. William S. Middleton, 65, former dean of the University of Wisconsin Medical School and military medico of long standing (he served on loan to the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in World War I, as colonel in the Army Medical Corps in Europe during World...
...afire. Last week, after years of fitful negotiation, the city of West Berlin settled for the damages. To the Jewish Restitution Successor Organizations and the Jewish Community will go 9,600,000 Deutsch marks ($2,280,000). The city also agreed to forgive payment of a $333,000 loan it had made the Jewish Community to help in rebuilding synagogues and welfare buildings. Rebuilt to date: five synagogues, one hospital, one community auditorium...
SAVINGS IN 1954 climbed to an alltime record, reported the United States Savings and Loan League. The total: $231.3 billion, an increase of $14.9 billion over 1953 and the biggest yearly jump of any year since the end of World...
Bigger Steak. Last year's coach, Physicist J. W. Buchta, who is now on loan to the Government for a year, thinks Minnesota is so successful because the team was chosen carefully to begin with "We didn't look only at their marks but also at their ability to think quickly and intuitively. One of last year's best team members was actually found to be on probation after he had made the team...