Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debts when harvests fail? When we occupied land with the Communist Party, we felt we were winning it for ourselves. But some of us got into debt and had to hand it back if we wanted the barons' money, and no one else has any to loan. Now we just can't believe that people are going to give us land. We have looked at it all ways. We can't see where the trick lies. It wouldn't be a trick if we could find...
...cutting up big estates for homesteaders, and production credits for small farmers; 3) encouragement for new industries; 4) two-year emergency tax of 25% on imports; 5) encouragement for trade unions; 6) higher civil service salaries, to reduce the temptation of graft; 7) U.S. to grant a $250 million loan, "strictly conditioned...
...week's end some Philippine newspapers were serializing the 53,000-word Bell report like a sensational mystery story. To give the story point, Washington made an offer of a $250 million five-year loan to the Philippines on condition that Manila carry out the reforms recommended in the Bell report...
...early days of the establishment," said Giannini, "the best financial statement that you could present . . . was calluses on your hands ... A fellow would come in and make [a loan] application and we would ask to see his hands . .. If he had calluses on his hands he would probably get the loan...
...loan to this country was voted by the U.S. Congress over President Truman's objections...