Word: borrowing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Could never beg, borrow...
Organization might be along democratic lines, each member paying a small dues fee. It would probably be desirable to have club equipment, such as ski racks, reflector ovens, ski safety belts, first aid outfits, and so on, which the mild participant doesn't have and can't borrow. Special assessments for such things could be voted by the membership body...
...where he holds a sinecure as director of a museum full of fairy-tale paintings by his teacher, Academician Gustave Moreau. Today a good Rouault costs about $3,500. For the Institute's Rouault show, Director Plaut was unable to import any paintings from Europe, or even to borrow one from the late exhibition at the New York World's Fair. He collected his show from U. S. museums and private owners, including Showman Billy Rose, and Actor Edward G. Robin son, who sent lengthy telegraphic suggestions about the lighting...
...Canal. But the most plausible theory was that they wanted a base for getting oil across Mexico, in order to avoid the uncertainties and tolls of the sea voyage via the Canal. Some oil for Japan was already being transported across Mexico by rail. Last week Mexicans tried to borrow money in the U. S. to expand rail lines leading across Mexico's throat to Salina Cruz from single to triple track. A Japanese dream is of an eventual pipeline...
...know whether at the end of that time we would have any orders for it or not; second, if we did have orders, we know in advance that profits made would be largely taken by taxes, and at the end of the emergency we might have to borrow money . . . besides having a plant which was a white elephant on our hands...