Word: loans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canal is a farm. We carry it on our books at $4,000. Now if they will loan me 8,000 I will gladly "sell" it to the PWA and they can put a lot of men to work on it. By draining the alkali spot it can be made into a beautiful park or what...
Good old RFC & PWA! Now that they are in the business I do not hesitate longer in asking for my loan-or what...
...hard-drinking but clear-headed Asiatic general who was pro-Soviet during the years when Moscow made that worth his while, has lately been pro-Nazi, is now emerging as the great Mohammedan champion of Democracy. Kamal Atatürk has now received a $30,000,000 British loan, dispatches confirmed last week, and Turkey has agreed to spend 100% of it buying armaments "Made in Britain." France has chipped in with a loan to Alexandretta on terms pleasing to The Turkish Dictator...
Thus, although Italy has recently scorned rumors that she is in the market for foreign credits, the thing Mussolini needs most is a headache powder in the form of a big foreign loan. Most likely place to get it is in London and observers believe that when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sees his cherished Anglo-Italian pact go into effect with the withdrawal of Italian troops from Spain, the British pocketbook will be invitingly opened...
Publisher John McAndrew of the weekly Beverly Hills (Calif.) Bulletin decided recently his business needed more cash, applied to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for a loan of $10,000. After an audit of his books, pro-Administration Publisher McAndrew was turned down. Reason: an RFC loan to a newspaper might be construed as a Government effort to influence the press politically...