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Explaining the function of the International Bank, Professor Hansen stressed the analogy between the background and aims of this world banking institution and the Federal Housing Administration in this country. Just as the financing of home construction in the United States was plagued by the insecurity of leans and "fantastic" interest rates, so, Hanson stated, were international loans characterized by a lack of security, high interest rates, and a failure to demand productive use of the borrowed funds...
...moments of highly confidential shoptalk, have been known to accuse Buckner of possessing too much surface brilliance- a damning indictment in the Army. Much of that criticism may well have stemmed from subconscious envy of Buckner's first-rate vocabulary, which shines with added luster against the background of a traditionally inarticulate profession. His standing with the Army's top leaders is attested by the fact that they have entrusted an army to his command at this stage of the war, when there is no lack of good generals with recent battle experience. As for the final test...
...duties as political analyst will include providing a background in European history which the Secretariat will use in its preparation of material for the daily staff meetings of Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius...
...Regulars who were in at the beginning rule the roost. Civilians, obliged to enter as Reserve second lieutenants, are often outranked by women with half their medical background...
...fire clouds kept creeping high and the tower of the Parliament Building stuck out black against the background of the red sky. During the night we thought the whole of Tokyo had been reduced to ashes...