Word: loans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...different objection. They believe that their countries: 1) can recover through their own efforts from here on; 2) must avoid becoming "dependencies" of the U.S. Said a retailer near London, borrowing a Daily Express theme: "We were wrong in the first place to accept the [$3,750,000,000] loan. It made us live artificially, beyond our means, while you profited over there. Now we've got to begin fighting on our own feet." Nevertheless, among Europeans who have heard of the Marshall Plan at all,* a substantial majority, of course, endorse...
...welcome evidence that the U.S. is not at the moment pulling out of Europe. Beyond that conclusion, Europeans find U.S. intentions obscure. Neither the words of Washington nor the explanations of their own governments have persuaded most Europeans, for example, that Marshall Plan aid is not basically just another loan-that is supposed to be paid back some day, with interest. How poorly U.S. aid has been described abroad is clear from the fact that 62% of the Frenchmen interviewed, and 61% of the Britons, think that ERP is fundamentally a loan. Italians are either much better informed or temperamentally...
Officials in both schools assured students that loan funds and scholarships are available and that additional scholarships will be added next fall...
...prosecutor, he piled up an imposing list of convictions: Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler (income tax evasion); "Lucky" Luciano (prostitution); Jimmy ("The Honest Blacksmith") Hines (Tammany graft); ex-Stock Exchange President Richard Whitney (grand larceny). Along with the bigwigs, he put away scores of smaller fry in the policy, loan shark' and extortion rackets...
...government recently subscribed $19 million for Itabira. Last week, after a year of heated negotiations, the finishing touches were being put to a new $7,500,000 Export-Import Bank loan. That meant electric shovels, compressed-air drills and crushing plants for the Iron Mountain. It also meant further improvements on the railroad, new facilities at the port. With all that done, say in two years, Itabira hoped to reach its immediate target: a yearly output of 1,500,000 tons...