Word: loans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students. The school had to move out of the orphanage, and scrape together $1,700 for a down payment on an empty house. Unable to pay all the bills, the parents appealed for help. They got $181 from a rummage sale, $800 from a Spokane summer theater, a $500 loan from a doctor. It cost about $300 per semester to teach each retarded child, and the bills kept piling up. For three months Patricia Aid got no pay; once she ran out of food. But the school kept going...
...Meets Girl. What brings lovers in such droves to Bride & Groom is its promise to feather their nests. The newlyweds get a free, week-long honeymoon ("We pay for everything except liquor," says Nelson), the loan of a Pontiac, and a shower of presents ranging from vacuum cleaners and gas ranges to silverware and cigarette lighters. The ceremony itself is whipped through in something under four minutes. The rest of the 15-minute program is devoted to music by an organ, a harp and a sentimental baritone, a quick rehash of the boy-meets-girl details of the particular romance...
Touching. In Medford, Ore., red-faced officials of the United States National Bank found their vault's time clock set two days ahead by mistake, sheepishly got a loan from rival First National to conduct the day's business...
Foreign Policy. FOR: the Marshall Plan and the special aid and loans that preceded it; the North Atlantic Treaty and arms aid; U.S. troops for defending Western Europe; Point Four. AGAINST (with Truman): participation by Spain in the Marshall Plan (but for a separate $100 million loan to Spain); the Kem amendment, requiring a cutoff in U.S. military aid for countries that ship strategic materials to the Soviet Union and its satellites...
...once a Fair Deal influence peddler and trusted crony of Harry Truman. After a nine-day trial in St. Louis' federal court, a jury found Finnegan guilty of illegally accepting some $8,000 in fees from two private companies for helping them collect a claim and a loan from the U.S. Government...