Word: loans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most highly prized item is the Morgan loan, a thirteenth century bestiary, the "Description of Animals" of Ibn Bakhtishu, the earliest known manuscript of the Mongol period of Persian art. The book was copied for the Emperor Ghazan Khan, of the Genghis Khan dynasty, and contains 94 colored drawings of animal subjects...
...called "Zafarnams," a history of the conqueror Tamurlane, completed in the fifteenth century, and containing the signatures of three of Persia's great emperors, Akbar, Jahangir, and Shah Jahan. The volume contains six double-page paintings by Bihzad, greatest of Persian miniature artists. It is a loan from Robert Garrett, of Baltimore...
...canvas has been added to the New Deal's present makeshift policy. To meet the threat of a 16,000,000-bale cotton crop, which knocked the price from 15? to 8? per lb., the New Deal broke out a well-worn storm sail in the form of loans to cotton growers (TIME, Aug. 23). Hastily arranged just before Congress adjourned, the cotton-loan program was financed by Jesse Jones's RFC through the Commodity Credit Corp...
When the Madrid embassy was officially abandoned by the U. S. last Thanksgiving, no provision was made for feeding the remaining Americans. This job fell naturally to Captain Cannaday, who was acclaimed sutler by the beleaguered refugees. First measure of Farmer Cannaday was to accept a loan of eight full-uddered Hereford cows from a dairyman whose farm lay in the path of Generalissimo Franco's advancing legionnaires. Quartered in the embassy garage and pastured on its expansive lawn, the cows produced enough milk to supply the embassy's needs, plus some for bartering purposes with the otherwise...
Commissars and high party officials still need loans from the State for the private houses and estates they are building or have built in imitation of Stalin's (TIME. Oct. 4). The Kremlin's decree last week, while abolishing loans to cooperatives, carefully guards the housing rights of Communist bigwigs and anyone else who can get permission from a local Soviet to build himself a private house. Armed with such permission, on which the project must be certified as a "small house" (what constitutes "small" being undefined), the fortunate Communist can still apply for and get a five...