Word: repays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Repayment: Dollars would be supplied as outright grants or as loans (through funds supplied to the Export-Import Bank) according to each nation's ability to repay. One possible asset for the U.S.: a chance to get and stockpile such critical raw materials as tin, natural rubber, industrial diamonds, quinine, manganese, chromium, copper, lead, zinc...
González was unimpressed. Now, more than ever, the country needed the $175,000,000 Argentine credit promised in the treaty for public works and industrialization. And González was even surer, after the year's events, that a revitalized Chile could repay the money later without losing her independence. But what prompted him to send his treaty to Congress last week was his strong new political position. A year ago he ruled with Communist support. Now he had ditched the Commies, won other friends in Congress. Yet as champions of cheap food for the masses...
Flora Robson carries the message of the picture as she gradually comes to realize that Naziism is not "in the blood" of Frieda, the fraulein whom her nephew married to repay for helping him escape from a German prison camp. Miss Zetterling portrays a hard-faced, stoical Frieda at first, but gradually develops her role of the misunderstood German girl, hated by the small English town into which she has been thrust, until her husband finally comes to know and love her as the warm, understanding person...
During the half time period an impromptu display of grid prowess was staged by a ragged group of settlement House irregulars who poured down on the track from end zone locations. Admitted by Bill Bingham at Student Council request, they tried to repay the favor by earning their admission and justifying the sum for the rest of the 17,000 crowd...
There had been too many holidays recently, and Perón knew it. At least five times in the last three months he had warned workers that he had done his best for them, that they must repay him by producing more. Government statistics told the story. Since 1943 employment had risen 15.9%, wages 121%; but man hours worked had gone up only 8%. Production on farm & factory was down, dollars were scarce, the official cost of living had increased 83%. Perón was the labor leader of Argentina; he had dumped the men who had organized the demonstrations...