Word: loans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abandoned Britain and signed a treaty with Russia reaffirming the Yalta and Potsdam deals, 2) agreed to return all of Germany to four-power control (i.e., a Soviet veto), 3) granted "generous" reparations to Russia, 4) resumed normal trade with Russia and sparked it off with a $2 billion loan...
...streets of Berlin, hope grew thinner, as did the long-familiar, reassuring roar of the airlift planes. The three Western commandants asked their Military Governments to make Berlin a long-term loan of $136 million. Before flying to Washington last week, where he is seeking new recruits for the fast-dwindling U.S. occupation staff, High Commissioner John McCloy promised Mayor Reuter that he would try to get direct Marshall Aid for Berlin. The U.S. expected the city's defense to continue costing money...
When the current nine-week season opened in July (with Mildred Natwick, John Emery and Tamara Geva in Blithe Spirit), the Playhouse still owed $9,500 on the Selznick loan, but had rolled up an advance ticket sale...
Until the Russian attack of 1939 put a moratorium on her World War I loan from the U.S., Finland had never missed a remittance day. She had paid the U.S. Government more than $8,000,000 (chiefly in interest) on the original $8,281,926.17 relief loan. After World War II she began paying again, still has $13 million to go. "These remarkable people," declared New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith last winter, "appear determined in a world of forgotten principles to make their country an example of integrity...
...banker in town would listen to her: "Ideals are fine," one told her, 'but you must, be practical." But Mrs. Grant kept wearing them down; finally, the Bank of America, which prides itself on financing the "little fellow," agreed to stake her to a $2,290,000 loan...