Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went to the Wharton School of Finance, but left after one semester to enlist in the Navy. For three years (including ten months in the Pacific) Leader was a World War II supply officer. After the war he returned to York County and (with the help of a G.I. loan ) bought Willow Brook Farm, a 28-acre outfit with a tidy 80-year-old brick house and an operating hatchery just 15 miles from his birthplace. After a grinding first year, Willow Brook Farm paid off handsomely. Leader now sells more than 1,000,000 chicks and 60,000 broilers...
Blockbuster No. 2. Three nights later, Tom Dewey dropped a second and more explosive bombshell. In 1925, he charged, Harriman had made a $2,000,000 loan to a company that operated a zinc mine in Polish Silesia. When the loan turned sour, Harriman and some banking associates formed a new company, issuing $15 million in bonds to operate the mine. "Before long, the company started losing money. Then came the war, and the mines were finally nationalized, and Harriman's great promotion, the Silesian American Corp., went into the hands of the bankruptcy court." The result, added Dewey...
...found. Mrs. McLean finally had an inspiration and called: "Mike! Here. Mike!" In bounded a great Dane. Twisted about his neck was an ornate necklace of 72 diamonds centering on the unique 44½ carat Hope. Mrs. McLean handed over the stone and in exchange Simpson handed her a loan of $36,500. Author Simpson is now retired, but still grows agreeably lyrical about the carats and characters he has known...
This month the Baltimore Museum of Art will celebrate its 25th year with a big loan show devoted to paintings of and by the aged. Among its masterpieces will be Thomas Eakins' portrait of Walt Whitman (opposite), painted when the poet...
...Said Yes." The son of an osteopath, Jim Price quit Indiana University's business school during the Depression, in 1937 went into business drumming up loan prospects for Prudential Life and selling houses on the side. One day, says Price, "somebody asked if I'd could sell him a prefabricated house. I'd never seen a prefab, but I said yes." He bought a prefab from Gunnison Housing Corp. (now a U.S. Steel subsidiary), and decided that there were big opportunities in the business. (He has long since passed Gunnison as the No. 1 maker of prefabs...