Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repeated efforts to reduce the appropriation still further, finally mustered a vote of 167 to 143 for a bill providing $2.19 billion, a cut of $1 billion from President Johnson's original request. The earlier authorization measure approved by both houses required that the Government's revolving loan fund, which allows poor nations to make arms purchases, be ended by June 30. The House appropriations bill goes even further by forcing the President to reduce any underdeveloped nation's economic aid by the amount of its own funds that the country spends to buy sophisticated weaponry. Only...
...loan to Adams House was initiated by Barth D. Schwartz '69 who chose the paintings, with the help of Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams House, from among those made available by the Fogg. Adams House has assumed the entire responsibility for the handling and insurance of the paintings...
What little movement there was bred new delay and debate. A Senate-House conference committee ended a two-month impasse over the foreign aid authorization bill, recommending $2.67 billion-$780 million less than the Administration had requested. The conference also decided to abolish a loan program that finances allied arms purchases in the U.S. Meanwhile, a House appropriations subcommittee drew up a different measure that provided even less money and more restrictions on military aid. The bill raising Social Security benefits that is emerging in the Senate is far more generous than the one already voted in the House, while...
Ahmanson today would scarcely win prizes for modesty, but his career in vests that paternal judgment with more truth than braggadocio. Starting with a 1925 stake of $20,000 in cash and securities, he has assembled a financial colossus of savings and loan associations, fire and title insurance, banking and investment companies. By conservative estimate, Ahmanson, 61, is worth more than $300 million...
...rest of the industry awoke to the advantages of big-scale operation, he snapped up 18 other associations to form, almost overnight, the first major S. & L. chain. By offering to split profits with cash-shy builders, he soon grabbed a commanding share of the Southern California home-loan market...