Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American International Corp. retained him for a big job in China: negotiation of a $130 million loan for railway and canal construction. The trip to the Orient became part of Austin's broadening horizon of travel; at other times, on bar-association or diplomatic business, he has also been to Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Near East and the Philippines...
Eight U. S. banks* teamed up with the World Bank last week to make a foreign loan, the first such cooperative venture in the bank's history. Together, they loaned $80 million to South Africa, which needs more electric power and railroad equipment to supply her rapidly expanding economy, booming from big wool exports and the discovery of new gold fields...
From now on every scholarship applicant will be considered automatically for a job, if he wants to work and his financial problems are not solved by a scholarship award. Or it he doesn't want a job, he can get a loan--all on the strength of one application to the single office...
From the start, however, there was little or no coordination between business and policy. The U.S. State Department was not wholehearted or effective in backing O.C.I. The Iranians were disappointed when the O.C.I. contract failed to grease the wheels for a large loan from the World Bank. The British resented O.C.I.'s presence in Iran, and negotiations over the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s payments to the Shah's government became deadlocked. Since most of the money for the seven-year plan was supposed to come from these payments, the plan never got going...
...Bank of America filed an involuntary petition in bankruptcy in Hollywood against Producer Walter (Joan of Arc) Wanger, after it tried and failed to collect a loan of $178,476.43 advanced to help make Reckless Moment, a new picture starring James Mason and Wanger's wife, Joan Bennett...