Word: loans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost the Egyptians 2,500 casualties (including 700 prisoners) and the loss of almost all their remaining toeholds in Palestine. Faluja, the one Egyptian pocket left within Israeli-held territory, had become a joke in Tel Aviv. Cracked cocky Israelis (who were being pressed for higher taxes and war loan contributions) : "We must turn the conduct of the war over to Finance Minister Kaplan-he knows how to empty pockets...
Asking for Credit. Everywhere, installment buying was on the increase, a sure sign that cash reserves had been thinned down considerably. At the same time, credit (at banks and loan companies) was harder to get. Graham Towers, head of the government's Industrial Development Bank, sounded the keynote: "We must scrutinize applications for credit with ever-increasing care...
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, Wellesley '13, may not got a United States loan, but she may very well wind up with a high-paying job if Miss Harriet Oxehham, Wellesley '47, has anything to say about it. She sent a letter yesterday to the college's Board of Trustees urging that the Missimo succeed Mildred McAfee Horton as president on the latter's retirement this June...
...crib of Nelson Roth, east of Pekin, was sealed today [with] Seal No. 0-48-5 of the Secretary of Agriculture of the U.S. . . . Sealed in this farm crib are 5,400 bushels of 1948 corn on which the Government has loaned $1.42 a bushel. If this corn had had to be sold when cribbed, it would have brought $1.25. Thus Mr. Roth is $918 ahead by sealing it. If the price goes above $1.42 before Sept. i, 1949, Farmer Roth can sell it and pay his loan. If the price remains below $1.42, Roth will simply deliver the corn...
Other topics scheduled for discussion are rules for new College publications, HAA policy on ticket allocations, and final approval of a $500 Council loan is the Salzburg Seminar...