Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negotiated a loan of £1,000,000 from Britain...
...away. Without even touching the vast funds ticketed for national defense, he thought he detected $4 to $6.5 billion of possible fat: $100 million of general Government expenditures, $300 million in the VA, maybe $200 million in agriculture, $150 million in conservation programs, another $150 million in the Government-loan field, down to countless hundreds of thousands that could be saved by buying cheaper cars for Government officials and cheaper paper for Government clerks...
...current issue of The Magazine of BUILDING. It is based on a brass-tacks, technical round table* held under the sponsorship of that magazine. The report has already received unanimous endorsement from the heads of every important U.S. building association, including architects, home builders, mortgage bankers, savings and loan leagues, producers and retail lumber dealers. Said the round table: "Without the pressure of some national emergency, the home-buying public might well have to go on year after year paying billions of dollars extra as the price of these wastes . . . [Now] we hope obvious reforms which might otherwise be delayed...
...clock: two good Government courses to choose from. Professor Neumann, on loan for year from Wesleyan University, gives European Politics in Emerson 211, and makes it sound good. Across the Yard in Harvard 1, Mass holds forth on the Conservation of Natural Resources, a pertinent subject at the present time...
...used for whatever South Africa needed. One-fifth of the equipment will be bought in the U.S., the rest in the United Kingdom. With the new equipment, South Africa hopes to boost gold production in ten years from $408 million a year to $575 million, pay off the loan with ease...