Word: loans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...characteristics in abundance. Not only is he a Missourian, he also knows Harry Truman and is a friend of Presidential Cronies Donald S. Dawson and Major General Harry Vaughan. Under questioning, Boehm reluctantly disclosed a few of his successful Washington deals. Among them was arranging a $200,000 RFC loan for a Philadelphia paper concern, picking up a $10,000 fee for promising to help a Mississippian sell a submachine gun to Army Ordnance, and helping a "client" who wanted to buy surplus war property by forming a partnership and splitting a $25,000 fee. The fee was split with...
...been 2½ months since President Truman had first asked Congress to go to India's aid, and the battle was still to be fought on the floor of the House. The Senate, which was working on a half-loan, half-grant version of its own, had still to pass it. But ships and grain were ready to go as soon as Congress made its decision, and could be on the way within a fortnight...
...compromise. Instead of an outright gift, the U.S. would lend India $190 million on easy terms to buy the necessary 2,000,000 long tons of grain. The terms would be left up to ECA (probably 35 years to pay at 2½% interest), and India could repay the loan in strategic materials such as monazite (a source of fissionable thorium), jute and manganese...
Tito's discovery of the glories of capitalism seemed to be prompted not only by sad experience but by great expectations. Belgrade last week let it be known that only one obstacle remained before the World Bank would grant a loan of $200 million for Yugoslav industrial construction: someone would have to underwrite the country's 1951-54 trade deficits. Tito, it was disclosed, had appealed to the U.S. and Britain to be the underwriters...
Most of the credit for the almost startling success of the film goes to director David Loan and his cast. "Oliver Twist" contains far better character acting than American audiences are accustomed to seeing. One reason for this high standard set by even the bit players is the Old Vie experience of many of them. John Howard Davies, as "the boy who asked for more," is far, far removed from our Dean Stock-wells. The difference is that he is an actor, not merely a cute but insipid child. Davies' performance is beautifully modulated to show Oliver's timid...