Word: repaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Welcome Back. Holland made its first postwar test of the U.S. private-capital market with a $20 million bond issue floated by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. The money will be used either to repay an Export-Import Bank credit or for reconstruction. At week's end about 95% of the bonds were sold...
...well-thumbed encyclopedia, and there would be tools in the basement. But George would spend most of his spare time attending to his duties as the unsung treasurer of the Community Chest. The Windsor household would revolve around their well-mannered children, and the elder at least would repay her parents' devotion by leading her local Scout troop and becoming captain of the field-hockey team...
...raise the subject of an Export-Import Bank loan-possibly as much as $400,000,000-to make his ambitious new program of irrigation and industrialization stick. But that would take time, and there were no experts in the Truman party of seven. Perhaps when Aleman came north to repay the call in April the two men would be more ready to talk...
Last week this year's recipient was named: Robert Nishiyama, 22, of Tokyo, ex-pilot in the Kamikaze (suicide) corps. Said he: "I want to try my best to repay Mr. & Mrs. Johnstone for the loss of their son. I can do this only by giving my small bit toward establishing good will between our two countries...
Three means of help can be offered--loans, work, and scholarships. The traditional University policy has been to keep loans to the absolute minimum because of the feeling that an obligation beyond what a man can reasonably be expected to repay in the years immediately following graduation, results in moral depression and defeatism, culminating in a "What the hell, why bother about anything" attitude. This policy is not unreasonable, but it should be re-examined in the light of the present situation. The veteran who needs help does not require a large sum. He comes to college with what amounts...