Word: repaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back to Robert R. Young's Alleghany Corp. and to Young's crony and financial angel, Allan Kirby, at the same price they had paid: $25 a share. Last week they did sell a big chunk of the stock. Richardson sold 200,000 shares to Kirby, thus repaying the $5,000,000 that Kirby had lent him to buy the stock. Another 300,000 shares, in effect, went to Alleghany Corp. for $7,500,000, the money going to repay a bank loan the Texans had made for the stock purchase. Since the stock was selling for about...
...desert vastness. "Just looking at it scared me," he said. He was tempted to stay on his father's farm in Utah. But he talked it over with Elizabeth and decided: "We're going to tackle it." The Bureau of Reclamation supplies the water, but Powers must repay the cost (up to $830 yearly); he must settle on the land, clear it and make it grow...
...sitting in the front row. Next day the London Times summed up: "The tone . . . was sufficiently rich and warm to fire any composer's imagination, but [Catelinet] did not suggest that the tuba can do much in the way of varied phrasing or dynamic nuance to repay promotion to a solo status...
Taking his question to Washington last week, Souza Dantas made his country's trade position clear: the U.S. share of the Brazilian market has already declined from 52% to 28% in five years, and if his country has to set aside $14 million monthly to repay the loan, there will be even less left to spend for U.S. exports. While Souza Dantas journeyed on to Manhattan to discuss the same problem with U.S. bankers and exporters, U.S. Ambassador James Kemper telephoned Washington from his post in Rio. Asked whether he talked to President Eisenhower, he said...
...repeat last year's performance on the excess-profits tax, when he had to wrest working control of the Ways & Means Committee away from Dan Reed. This year old Dan has gone along with the Administration's social-security expansion program. Martin does not want to repay Reed by opening an all-out fight against him on tariffs...