Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gentleman Farmer Arthur McCashin of Pluckemin, N.J., who assisted greatly in the victory, rode twelve-year-old Paleface, on loan to him from Mr. and Mrs. H. J. O'Connell of Montreal. On a visit to the O'Connells last summer, McCashin took a fancy to the animal, rode him, was convinced of his merit. He took him to his Pluckemin home for further training, successfully put him through eliminations to pick the U.S. team, and the grueling three-day competition...
...long last, Francisco Franco of Spain got the EGA loan he had been seeking. With the air of a man holding his nose and obeying an unpleasant command, ECA announced that it would begin "immediately" to channel to Spanish industries and companies the $62.5 million in ECA funds set aside for Spain by the 81st Congress. Able no longer to ignore the will of Congress, despite its own contempt for the Franco dictatorship, the Administration did its best to make it look as unlike a Marshall Plan project as possible. ECA would send no mission to Madrid, would leave...
...timing of the loan to Spain was designed to smooth the way for U.S. aid to another dictator whom the Administration was more eager than Congress to help: Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. With Spain assured of its pot of gold, President Truman asked congressional leaders for money to Tito to offset a famine which might, said the President, topple Tito from power. President Truman did not deny that Tito was a Communist; he simply did not mention it. "Tito's defection from Kremlin control represents the first setback for Soviet imperialism and as such is an important political...
When the Shah of Iran visited the U.S. last year, he got a royal welcome that laid the groundwork for a $25 million Export-Import Bank loan. Day by day, through an Iran relay station, the Voice of America beamed an account of the Shah's glad-hand tour. When the Shah returned to his country he decided to continue the Voice relays. For 15 minutes daily since then, the Voice has been heard from the Teheran medium-wave station. Last week the Shah's government silenced the VOA relay broadcasts. The order came a few days after...
...Chronicle lists the services these "second mothers" were supposed to have performed for student roomers. "They leave home-made cookies on their bureaus, give them wise advice on affairs of the heart, and loan them money when they are out of funds." One graduate student commented, "I had to pay 60 percent interest on those loans...