Word: repay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rode, controller and assistant treasurer of International Harvester Company of America, whose office is in Brussels. Mr. Rode and Dr. Owen had words. "Does this mean that your company doubts my bona fides?" drawled Oxonian Owen. Controller Rode stood his ground. On Feb. 12, Dr. Owen contemptuously offered to repay I. H. C., Ltd. out of his own pocket the whole $150,000 they had advanced. Did they really want it, with all that such a transaction would imply? They did. He wrote a check, which they promptly deposited. When next I. H. C., Ltd. saw this bit of paper...
...accident made his scientific career. For the subsequent operation turned his busy, acquisitive, ambitious brain to medicine, then to bacteriology. He learned very easily. So he lazied with geishas, saki, talk and chess. He borrowed money, for his schooling and travels, with amazing ingenuity. He always meant to repay loans, but rarely did with more than gratitude : "I hope the master [who financed most of his vagaries, including steerage passage to San Francisco] will take care of his honorable wife [who sold her precious marriage kimono for his maintenance]. . . . Please remember me to all who have eaten...
...observers familiar with Fox Film Corp. and its current financial situation were not surprised at the appearance of a financial man in Fox publicity. Fox Film must soon raise between $55,000,000 and $75,000,000 to repay loans resulting from the frenzied finance of William Fox and the emergency financing of the reorganization in which William Fox ceased to direct Fox destinies and Harley Clarke succeeded him. Able is Mr. Clarke and varied are his interests (which include ownership of the second largest brickyard in the world), but depressed is the cinema industry and few are the cinema...
There will then be enough money in hand to pay Britain's debt to the U. S. with ease; but in the meantime the manifesto demands "some postponement of the [present] precipitate attempt to repay the War debt from taxation of this generation...
...dealing with certain smaller powers who borrowed from her in pre-War francs, France has successfully demanded that they repay her at the pre-War rate of 19.3˘gold per franc. But she will not pay Britain more than 3.9˘ she defies Mr. Snowden, and he last week appeared to be powerless. Said London's Financial Times...