Word: borrow
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...over. Before the final vote, Communist deputies put on a riotous show that was even more violent and abusive than last week's. Cracked a Foreign Office official who must attend this week's debate on ratification of the Franco-American military aid agreement: "Where could I borrow a suit of armor...
...least-known U.S. chemical companies. The price was high: I.C.I, had to pay $55 a share, twice what the stock had recently been selling for. To finance the $3,500,000 deal, shrewd Scotsman McGowan did not spend any of Britain's scarce dollars. He merely arranged to borrow the money from Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., will repay it from Arnold, Hoffman's U.S. earnings...
...Martin the landing of the first sizable commercial order in three years was another step in its comeback. Hit hard by the sharp cutbacks in military buying at war's end, Martin had to borrow $26.7 million from RFC, expanded its operations in such sidelines as plastics in hope of making some money. But in 1947 it lost $19 million, followed that with a $16.7 million loss...
Freedom of Thought. We cannot have "real democracy," said Author Blanshard, "unless we have access to information on both sides of all important questions . . . The Catholic hierarchy, in Canon 1399, says that no Catholic can read, borrow, buy or sell . . . any book which attacks Catholic discipline or Catholic dogma...
Under the new system a needy and risk-worthy undergraduate can borrow up to $400 during each of his upperclass years, and he doesn't need to pay it back until after he graduates. Nor does he start paying the 3 percent interest until he has finished all his schooling...