Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plea for $3 billion to provide currency reserves seemed to some officials like a mere rephrasing of Ernie Bevin's suggestion for "redistributing" the buried gold at Fort Knox...
Pakistan cried for outside help. To the rest of the British Commonwealth it addressed a plea for aid in ending violence. To the U.N. it proposed that six observers be sent to Pakistan and India. Pakistan's appeal made India shriek...
...wish we could give them a big lift fast-without any strings or political oratory or pressure concerning their dominions and colonies. . . . Ten billion (her own choice of medium) and the lending (only if invited) of our ex-"dollar-a-year" men is this ex-isolationist's plea...
...after Bevin's casual reference to Lend-Lease, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton made a not-so-casual plea for crisis aid from the International Bank (whose staff calls its present quarters, one of London's deepest air-raid shelters, "the second Fort Knox"). Bank President John J. McCloy pointed out that the Bank was designed to make only commercially sound loans, attractive to private investors, and not to grant emergency aid not likely to be repaid...
Unforgivable Debt. The RFC bluntly rejected Henry Kaiser's plea that it write off $85 million of the $123 million it had loaned him during the war to build his Fontana (Calif.) steel plant. Kaiser had contended that the writeoff would be in line with the $162 million loss the Government took on the war surplus sale of its $200 million Geneva (Utah) plant. Said RFC: the situations were not at all similar. U.S. Steel bought Geneva - Fontana's competitor-through open bidding long after the plant was built. But Kaiser himself built, operated and reaped the wartime...