Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issues. But when all of this was said, his had been a remarkable career: a racket-busting prosecutor at 33 who put behind bars "Lucky" Luciano, Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler, Tammany's Jimmy Hines, .Wall Street's Richard Whitney and many a little name in the loan and extortion rackets; at 40, an honest, efficient governor and able politician who had cut taxes, backed a veterans' bonus, rent control, and the nation's most workable law against racial discrimination, had cleaned out graft in workingmen's compensation and renovated cobwebby mental and public health programs...
...Senate subcommittee's buckshot blast at high coffee prices (TIME, June 19), Latin America reacted with its loudest collective yelp in years. By accusing the latinos of rigging the coffee market and by bluntly suggesting some undiplomatic ways to force prices down aga (e.g., "scrutinizing" loan to coffee countries, encouraging production in other countries, policing the coffee trade, etc.), Iowa's Senator Guy Gillette and his colleagues had managed to wound the good neighbors' sensitive pride and threaten their pocketbooks as well...
...additional $5,000,000 will go mostly towards scholarship, research, and loan funds, besides unrestricted endowment for the school...
...Celebrated the election of a new President. 2. Celebrated a new $500 million U.S. loan. 3. Opened its new Texas-to-Guatemala highway. 4. Substituted auto racing for bull fights. 5. Opened a 1950 World Exposition...
...Have You Brought Buns?" Systematically, the Communists are destroying Shanghai's business class. Their chief instrument is the forced government loan. A quota is assigned to each category of industry or business, and the businessmen belonging to each group are ordered to attend a meeting at which they are addressed by Communist Party organizers. Sometimes the Communists open the meeting with the remark: "Have you brought buns? This may take some time." Speaking in relays, the Communists harangue the meeting until the bonds are bought...