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This good-neighborly gesture of Franklin Roosevelt was not so princely as economical. Its direct cost to the U. S. was about $3.880, but the gesture was sure to be repaid-in good will and good business-a thousandfold...
...door delivery with trucks. He was also the first railroader to get an RFC loan. Said Jesse Jones: "Will, I'm afraid of short lines, but I'm not afraid of one owned and operated by a bunch of Scottish Presbyterians." Five years later the loan was repaid. Blessed with a non-absentee ownership (the Blues and their two sisters own all but a fraction of the common), A. & R. can afford to indulge its whims. Because it had wrecks on three successive Thanksgiving Days, A. & R. operates only five days in Thanksgiving week...
...Fleet. U. S. isolation has been a practical foreign policy largely because Britain was friendly. For this arrangement, the U. S. repaid her. At the back door of Asia the U. S. Fleet has long stood guard, setting up outposts in the Philippines and Hawaii to prevent seizure of the Orient by pushing, expansion-set Japan. Today, with Britain fighting with her back to the wall, Admiral Richardson can keep his battle fleet based at Honolulu, only because the U. S.'s outposts in the Atlantic are still under the protection of a British Fleet...
...blood of the Boers boil. Even Vaderland, organ of Anglophobe Opposition Leader General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, who was voted out of office when he tried to keep South Africa from declaring war on Germany, last week said of the invasion of The Netherlands: "This great crime will be repaid by history...
...Ritter, who gave hundreds of thousands of dollars of his profits to Catholic, Jewish and Protestant charities, kept a mansion in Brooklyn surrounded by a garden. Last week Usurer Ritter pleaded guilty to ten counts of usury, will be sentenced for them after Pacific Fi nance has repaid $250,000 to its victims. Since Pacific has $900,000 in cash and securities, this it can well...