Word: loans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Man. Franco's confidence is enhanced by a number of factors. Chief among them is the Truman Doctrine, which has convinced his followers that the U.S. is now a friend of any anti-Communist force, no matter how reprehensible. Many Spaniards are asking how big their loan from Washington will be, $300 or $400 million...
...only people who are against credit control, said Eccles, are "the people who sell credit-the banks and the loan companies." Eccles said that in a poll of automobile dealers-usually considered the main beneficiaries of the installment system-only 51% voted for decontrol, 48% favored consumer credit legislation. Despite his plea, observers saw only one chance in five that Congress would make credit control permanent...
Poland, alone, is already seeking $600 million from the bank. To determine its ability to repay it, McCloy last week sent a four-man team to Poland. He conceded that the bank's charter forbids political considerations in making loans. But Soviet-dominated Poland's politics are bound to affect the bank's decision on whether she can repay a loan. Moreover, since the bank will depend almost entirely on American investors for its new capital, it will have to persuade them of the soundness of its risks. At best, the bank in the next twelve months...
...costs and a box-office slump, there was bound to be a squeeze. Producers and writers "whose assignments have been completed," were being laid off by studios. Monogram, which specialized in Westerns and quickie "Bs," closed down for the summer. Bankers were cutting down on the percentage they would loan on a picture. The major studios were trimming their production schedules. They could afford to cut down because they had so many pictures "in the can," i.e., completed but not released...
Promptly, some Congressmen demanded that Hungary be cut off from the benefits of the $350 million foreign relief loan. Cried House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Charles Eaton: "If Russia takes over the soul of Hungary, let her take over Hungary's alimentary canal at the same time...