Word: importantly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...speech as he handed over the money (although he did say, eloquently for a banker, "They can buy everything that humans need in everyday life"). Nor did modest K. P. Chen, Chinese banker who negotiated the 1936 U. S.-Chinese (gold-silver) agreement, the 1938 $25,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan, hail the new loan for the victory it was. Mr. Chen wanted to keep out of the limelight, minimize his part in the proceedings and get back to China as soon as possible. But because the European war has checked China's flight of capital, improved...
Passionate U. S. debate over a loan to Finland (TIME, March 11) obscured what was in many ways a bigger U. S. financial and political transaction-the $20,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan last week to China...
...finally, after eight weeks of stalling, the Congress shoved through a bill authorizing a $100,000,000 increase in the depleted capital of the Export-Import Bank-on the clear understanding that Federal Lender Jesse Jones would immediately "lend" Finland...
...Banking & Currency committee, 18-5, at last came the bill doubling the Export-Import Bank's $100,000,000 capital-$20,000,000 of it to go to Finland, if there still is a Finland when the bill is signed...
...markets lost to competitive fuels. As for the bootleggers, the Governor hopes they will ultimately be absorbed by stabilized legitimate producers. This pious hope gains strength from the cooperative policy of neighboring States (New York. New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware), which have already narrowed the 'leggers' markets by import (stolen goods) restrictions...