Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Friend. Witness Ross Bohannon took the stand. A Texas lawyer, he testified that in trying to get an RFC loan for the Texmass Petroleum Co. in 1949, he talked with Merl Young. Young, he swore, offered to help in return for a fee of $10,000 cash-plus $7,500 a year for the next ten years. Young denied the story, said it was Bohannon who had talked about a big fee, and declared that he hadn't even been tempted. New Hampshire's Charles W. Tobey intervened...
...pressure from outside RFC. Willett insisted that he had never done anything unusual as an RFC director. But a few minutes later he admitted that he had taken the "very unusual" step of personally assigning an RFC examiner so that an "old friend" would get a $300,000 RFC loan. (The old friend: Charles E. Rowe, who is now an RFC director himself...
They leased a 237-acre plot near Managua, got a $7,000 bank loan, bought a tractor on credit, and set to work. Neither of them had ever operated a tractor before. "We had a big field," Dick recalls, "so we just turned her loose and fiddled around until we sort of got the hang of it." Once they found out how to run the tractor, they fitted it with lights and ran it at night...
...last week, Kaiser used part of a $115 million loan from eight banks and 18 insurance companies to Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp., which reported a $6.6 million profit for the first six months of fiscal 1950-51. With the remainder of the bank loan, Kaiser will build a 200-million-lbs.-a-year aluminum reduction plant in New Orleans, increase his production...
...would be most grateful for the loan of any relics, letters or portraits of Thomas Paine, for the month of June and the gift of any books or prints which admirers of Paine could send us. We would insure and take every care of any objects of value that our American friends would loan us and naturally we would welcome all American visitors to Paine's birthplace, which still stands and is marked by a plaque erected by American soldiers stationed near Thetford during the last war. Mrs. E. Watling, Mayor