Word: loans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York authorities were at first unable to identify the Central Park snail, because part of the American Museum of Natural History's reference collection of mollusks is on loan here at Harvard. The golf ball-sized shells were later attributed to the common American fresh water group, "Viviparus conectoides...
Last spring, when the odor of influence-peddling and political loans in the RFC finally penetrated Truman's nostrils, he called Battler Symington in as the cleanup man. Symington fired employees who had become entangled in the influence web, and opened loan files to public scrutiny. When he decided that the world's tin producers were gouging the U.S., he slashed the price the RFC would pay for tin. This brought cries of anguish from Bolivia, and got Symington into an argument with the State Department. Now that Symington is leaving, the Bolivians hope to win the argument...
Depression Years. That was in 1927. This week Dr. Starke, 52, a veteran of 24 years' practice in Sanford (pop. 11,700), opened a new $50,000 clinic (about half the cost came from his savings, the rest from a bank loan). Meantime, he had established a solid record of helping his race, and some white folks too. During the depressed 19305, Dr. Starke formed a team with Seminole County's overworked public-health nurse, Mrs. Frances McDougal. Together they toured the county, treating hookworm and giving inoculations. Though he never offered his services to whites ("I didn...
...loan to Britain in July 1946 was not an ECA transaction...
ECONOMIC AID. Churchill is determined not to ask for a fresh U.S. loan. But from military and economic funds already appropriated he is anxious to get some dollars. And he wants 1,500,000 tons of U.S. steel to keep Britain's economy-straining rearmament program going...