Word: loans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston hotel. Within thirteen months he saved sixteen hundred dollars and made two acquaintances who were to prove extremely useful. One of them was a wealthy and influential manufacturer, the other a prominent banking official. Mr. Forsyth got Cocoris a license, and the banker got him a loan enabling him in 1916 to start a combination pool room and Greek restaurant on Knee of carrying itself, Cocoris scrapped the pool room. The concern moved to its present location on the second floor at 51 Stuart Street in 1925 when Kneeland Street was widened...
...Fashioned Loan. Norway was the first European country to attempt to float a big private loan in the U.S. through regular banking channels. It filed a registration statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission for a $10,000,000 issue of ten-year 3.5% sinking-fund bonds to increase its dollar exchange reserves...
...proposed U.S. supervision of that assistance. The crux was a U.S. plan to clean the Augean stable of Greece's economy, and, specifically, the U.S.'s intention to control what kind of goods the notoriously inefficient Greek Government ought to buy with the U.S. loan. Premier Demetrios Maximos and Foreign Minister Constantin Tsaldaris, in an interview with the New York Times, pointedly expressed their hope that the U.S. would restrict itself to an "advisory" role. In the past, the Government had persistently ignored any such advice offered by Britain, had imported picture magazines, chocolate, cosmetics and combs...
...Buckle Under." Uneasy gratitude was even more pronounced in well-off Turkey, which could afford pride more easily than Greece. There still was overwhelming sympathy for the U.S.; in a square at Izmir last week, Democratic Party Leader Celal Bayar was making a cautionary speech on the U.S. loan, when the S.S. Exchester let out a mighty whistle blast in the nearby harbor. Bayar interrupted his speech, turned toward the ship and saluted the U.S. flag, while his audience did the same...
...soon proved himself wrong. When the operator of a fledgling airline, Pacific Air Transport, was granted a $5,000 loan, Patterson was put on the account. As most airlines were then regarded as being in the same class as fly-by-night carnivals, the bank took a somewhat dim view of the loan. Patterson brightened his employer's view by getting the loan paid off, but he soon found himself more interested in flying than in banking. Through his new concern with aviation he met the late P. G. Johnson, president of Boeing Aircraft, who was then helping William...