Word: repaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This authoritative and readable collection of twelve essays is addressed to Americans who think that the U.S. cultural debt to Asia could be repaid with the return of a few porcelains, screens, Chi nese backscratchers and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Ranging from agriculture to art, music to philosophy, the essays will be especially helpful to Americans who still regard Asiatics as exotically mysterious beings with whom they have virtually nothing in common...
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, whom Hitler repaid for the betrayal of Austria with appointment as Gauleiter for The Netherlands, was seized by Canadian forces...
Slowly but steadily, the RFC money was repaid until, at the outbreak of World War II, the Government held but $8,750,000 of its original $12,500,000 preferred stock in G.M.'s bank. As deposits doubled & redoubled, somewhat surprised General Motors executives found that their bank, which they still planned to abandon at the end of the emergency, had become the keystone of Detroit's financial structure...
...Congressional subcommittee on foreign trade last week came Dean Acheson, the able Assistant Secretary of State. He strongly recommended that Congress substantially increase the lending power of the Export-Import Bank and at the same time repeal the Johnson Act which prohibits private loans to nations that have not repaid their World War I debts...
Twelve to 15 new express highways, radiating from downtown Boston, are among the professors' suggestions for improving upon Boston's limited accessibility by automobile. They place increasing emphasis on more and better highways as the key to the Hub's transportation difficulties, making no additions to the city's repaid transit system...