Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Monetary Fund, and permission to make such withdrawals had already been requested. "Secondly," said the chancellor, "Her Majesty's Government own U.S. dollar securities to the value of between $750 million and $1 billion ... I am assured that, if requested, support in the form of a loan against these holdings will be promptly available . . . from the appropriate agency...
...when your bucket is dry, even a drop tastes good." Low-interest VA and FHA mortgages simply cannot compete in the tight-money market where businessmen are paying interest rates of 5½% to 6% without a murmur. Even in the mortgage market itself, conventional, non-Government insured loans currently bring as much as 6% in many areas, are far more attractive to banks, life insurance companies and savings and loan associations...
...President Lowell reported to the alumni that Harvard was "the poor man's college" to a large extent, and pointed out the need for increased scholarship and loan funds. Apparently his report stirred up interest in expanding the student employment program, for the next year a Student Employment Office was organized to provide jobs not only outside the University, but inside as well...
...Russians had agreed to forget Poland's past debts, which were largely imaginary. On the credit side was a Russian loan of $175 million spread over the next two years and a promise of 1,400,000 tons of grain "to help our present difficuties...
...soon as word of Canada's more generous relief program reached Europe, there was a rush of refugees to the Canadian immigration office in Vienna. About 1,000 visas had been issued, at the rate of 100 applicants a day, under the government-loan scheme; the daily rate rose to 300 after the new free transportation offer was announced...