Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...build up these stock piles, RFC formed two $5,000,000 corporations last week: Rubber Reserve Co. (half of whose capital will be put up by the rubber makers) and Metals Reserve Co. To the former it planned to lend $65,000,000 to buy 150,000 tons of rubber; to the latter $100,000,000 to acquire 75,000 tons of tin and other strategic metals. London reacted promptly to the new demand, the international tin cartel upped its export quota from 100 to 130% of standard (or at the rate of 271,661 tons a year...
...shipped that here, she would add to our surplus, embarrass us. Instead, she will help us put gold back into circulation by putting her $2,000,000,000 fund into a new European-American ("Schachtian") Bank of Intercontinental Settlements. Protected by this margin, the U. S. can then lend Germany, says Westrick, about $5,000,000,000 in gold. This would come back in payment for German purchases throughout the Hemisphere...
...glad to sell out. On the few others who refused, Burdick slapped condemnation proceedings. He ingratiated himself with the Eskimos by dealing out not only reindeer but great quantities of bubble gum. The Government will collect the herds he purchased in reindeer corrals built by the Eskimo CCC, will lend reindeer to Eskimos for breeding, or in cases of destitution, for meat and clothing...
...crisis and in behalf of our national defense -and nothing else." Aside from the thoughts of Republicans and Democrats who viewed the appointments only as a smart device for affecting the political campaign, the President may well have viewed them as useful for less partisan purposes-useful perhaps to lend new hope to Britain, whose immediate collapse would place the U. S. in an even more dangerous position, useful possibly to lift the desperate efforts of the U. S. to a non-partisan plane, where they could command the united efforts...
...materials, Brazil tightened its ties with the democracies by concluding a pact permitting Britain to buy from Brazil without transfer of currency. Militarily Brazil moved closer to the U. S. as General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro, urging defensive cooperation of all the Americas, called on the U. S. to lend its material and technical superiority to the task...