Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stretches a helping hand to anyone with a "reasonable" chance of success, will shell out millions for airplanes or thousands to buy a truck. In 1955 alone, Ex-Im authorized $371.1 million worth of individual loans, also handed out general lines of credit worth another $15-1-9 million to 130 U.S. exporters. An Argentine company got $60 million for a new steel mill; a Brazilian company got $1,222,000 for new U.S. buses; customers in Peru, Thailand, Turkey. Greece, Italy. Egypt borrowed funds ranging from $20 million down to $5,000 for everything from hospital equipment to coal...
...whether or not more private bankers come in, President Waugh promises to keep Ex-Im growing. He measures the need for the bank by letters such as the one he got recently from Mack Truck President P. 0. Peterson, who landed a $1,000,000 bus order from Iran with Ex-Im help. Wrote Peterson: "If America is to continue to grow and prosper, industrial concerns like Mack must find outlets for their increasing production. The Export-Import Bank is playing an essential role in enabling America to obtain its fair share of foreign markets...
...subsided, middle-aged Tony saw he needed a woman, and sure enough, some pretty little Frisco waitress sends him a post-card professing love. On his way to the village railway station to meet her, Tony is drunk with triumph and a good deal of his own vino. His truck crashes, Tony is hurt, and henceforth is confined to a wheel-chair. He entreats his dear, departed but heaven-bound Mama (who apparently materializes for Tony somewhere in the vacant last four rows of the second balcony) for guidance. Tony then sings an ode about how "Young People Dance...
...show the House Appropriations Committee just how low today's teacher standards have fallen. On one first-grade exercise paper she produced, the sevens had been written backwards. On another, three plus six made eight and two plus three made six. On still another, truck had become truk and trains trims. What alarmed Mrs. Riordan was not the mistakes themselves: it was the fact that the teachers had marked all these papers "perfect...
...night was dreadfully hot in the tiny village of Sahneh on the road from Teheran to Baghdad and Damascus. Around the solitary gasoline station and several inns, truck-driver counterparts of Scheherezade's cameleers slept in the open, and townspeople flung wide their doors. About i a.m. a gaunt wolf swept down from the mountains like an Assyrian on the fold and attacked sleeping Sahneh. The beast loped lightly over the low mud walls and slashed at sleeping villagers around the scattered huts on the out skirts. The wolf went for the head, as is the way of wolves...