Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokyo, Foreign Minister Katsuo Okazaki and U.S. Ambassador Robert Murphy signed an agreement (already approved by Congress) transferring 50 U.S. landing craft and 18 frigates to Japan's Coastal Safety Force (embryo navy) on a five-year-loan basis. The news created hardly a ripple in either country, though in 1942 any U.S. serviceman in the Pacific would have been laughed down had he predicted such a turn of events in one decade...
...Personal income is now running at a record rate of $273 billion a year; savings (e.g., currency and bank deposits, insurance, securities and savings and loan associations) are at an alltime high of $283 billion...
...drooping mournfully from the corners of their mouths, the French farmers clustered in the cornfield, waiting for the show to begin. A bottle of wine protruded from the hip pocket of one, a long loaf of bread from another. Professor Jay C. Hackleman, a University of Illinois agronomist on loan to the Mutual Security Agency, mounted the corn wagon. "Where's Elmer?" somebody whispered. In a moment Elmer Carlson, 43, a bronzed, strapping Iowa farmer and onetime U.S. national cornhusking champion, was found-on hands & knees inspecting a newfangled carbide scarecrow. Looking like a miniature 75-mm. cannon...
...seven years, Stanley Dollar had fought to regain the line founded by his father and turned over to the Government before the war in exchange for a $7,500,000 loan. Last week, as one final gesture to make sure the Government couldn't keep his old property, Dollar put in a minimum bid of $14 million. "We are gone," he murmured sadly as he heard A.P.L. Associates' high bid. But Dollar was by no means dollarless. Under the terms of the sale, arranged last spring with Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer (TIME, June 23), Dollar will get half...
...Lodge voted six times against an extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act without crippling amendments. And in May, 1951, he voted for an amendment which changed the terms of the India Emergency Assistance Bill and made our gift of wheat to India into a loan--thus sacrificing much of the favorable publicity our action would have received in the Far East...