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1 creditor at large
Экономика: кредитор, не имеющий обеспечения долга -
2 creditor at large
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3 creditor at large
кредитор, який не має забезпечення боргу -
4 creditor
кредитор, верительcreditor at large — кредитор, не имеющий обеспечения долга;
- bond creditorcreditor by priority — привилегированный кредитор, кредитор с предпочтительным правом требования
- book creditor
- catholic creditor
- certificate creditor
- double creditor
- execution creditor
- general creditor
- joint creditors
- judgement creditor
- junior creditor
- lien creditor
- preferred creditor
- prior creditor
- secondary creditor
- secured creditor
- senior creditor
- several creditors
- unprivileged creditor
- unsecured creditor
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5 creditor
1. n кредитор2. n фирма, предоставляющая коммерческий кредит; магазин, торгующий в кредитgeneral creditor — лицо, предоставляющее обычный кредит
3. n правая сторона бухгалтерской книги, кредитtrade creditor — лицо, предоставившее коммерческий кредит
creditor at large — кредитор, не имеющий обеспечения долга
secondary creditor — кредитор, не имеющий обеспечения долга
Синонимический ряд:recipient (noun) acceptor; beneficiary; collector; consignee; customer; grantee; receiver; receiver of stolen goods; recipient -
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7 secure a creditor
secondary creditor — кредитор, не имеющий обеспечения долга
creditor at large — кредитор, не имеющий обеспечения долга
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8 at large
1. на свободе, свободный; на просторе2. незанятый, без определённых занятий3. пространно, подробно, со всеми деталямиas large — подробно; в целом; весь; широко; вообще; имеющий широкие полномочия
4. в целом, весь5. случайно; без разбору6. имеющий широкие или необычные полномочияgeneral public, public at large — широкая публика
creditor at large — кредитор, не имеющий обеспечения долга
7. вообще, в общем смысле8. независимо от партийной принадлежностиСинонимический ряд:widely (other) abroad; broadly; everywhere; expansively; ubiquitously; widely -
9 as large
подробно; в целом; весь; широко; вообще; имеющий широкие полномочияcreditor at large — кредитор, не имеющий обеспечения долга
general public, public at large — широкая публика
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10 general
1. n амер. сл. начальство, «отец-командир»2. n общее3. n общие замечания; общие положения; общая частьgeneral architecture — общая архитектура, архитектура зданий
4. n разг. прислуга «за всё»general servant, servant of all work — «прислуга за всё»
5. n церк. глава ордена6. n уст. большинство7. n уст. толпа, чернь, простонародье8. a общий, всеобщийgeneral knowledge — то, что известно всем
9. a широкий; повсеместныйgeneral lay-out — общее расположение, генеральный план
general counter-attack — общая контратака; контрнаступление
general release — кино широкий прокат, выпуск на широкий экран
it is a matter of general anxiety — это беспокоит всех, это предмет всеобщего беспокойства
it is not in the general interest to close railways — закрыть железнодорожное движение противоречит общим интересам
general public, public at large — широкая публика
10. a распространённый; общепринятый, обычныйin general — обычно, вообще, в большинстве случаев
as a general rule — обычно, как правило
the general idea is that … — все считают, что …, существует общее мнение, что …
general creditor — лицо, предоставляющее обычный кредит
in a general way — обычным путем; в общих чертах
as a general thing — обычно, как правило
11. a общий, общего характера, неспециализированный; неспециальныйgeneral dealer — торговец товарами повседневного спроса; хозяин лавки, в которой продаются различные товары
general store — универсальный магазин, неспециализированный магазин
general servant — прислуга «за всё»
general hospital — неспециализированная больница; больница общего типа
general reserve — общий резерв; резерв общего назначения
12. a расплывчатый, неточный, общийif you go in the general direction of the church … — видите церковь? Если вы будете держаться этого направления …
13. a главный, генеральныйgeneral committee — генеральный комитет ; президиум
Director General, General Manager — генеральный директор
General Commanding Officer — командующий, командующий группой войск, командир соединения
general headquarters — ставка, главное командование
Синонимический ряд:1. common (adj.) average; common; commonplace; customary; generic; matter-of-course; natural; normal; ordinary; prevailing; prevalent; regular; run-of-the-mill; typic; typical; universal; usual2. diverse (adj.) diverse; diversified; sundry3. indefinite (adj.) ill-defined; imprecise; indefinite; inexact; lax; uncertain; vague4. large (adj.) all-around; all-inclusive; all-round; broad; catholic; comprehending; comprehensive; ecumenical; endless; expansive; extended; extensive; far-reaching; global; inclusive; large; limitless; overall; sweeping; universal; wide-ranging; widespread5. miscellaneous (adj.) miscellaneous; nonspecific; unrestricted; unspecialized6. popular (adj.) democratic; popular7. public (adj.) communal; joint; mutual; popular; public; vulgar8. universal (adj.) generic; universalАнтонимический ряд:definite; exceptional; extraordinary; individual; infrequent; limited; only; particular; rare; remarkable; single; singular; sole; specific; unusual -
11 кредитовать
несовер. и совер.;
(что-л.) credit, finance;
give creditкредит|овать - несов. и сов. (вн.)
1. (давать в долг) credit (smb.), give* (smb.) credit;
~ кого-л. большой суммой credit a large sum to smb., credit smb. with a large sum;
2. фин. finance ( smth.), grant credits (to) ;
~ строительство finance building;
~ор м. creditor.Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > кредитовать
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12 pay
1. I1) he owes it and must pay он должен /задолжал/ и обязан заплатить; who is paying? кто платит?2) this work (the business, the shop, farming, this enterprise, etc.) pays (does not pay) эта работа и т.д. (не) окупается / (не) оправдывает себя/; how to make business pay? как сделать предприятие рентабельным?2. II1) pay in some manner pay willingly (reluctantly, grudgingly, handsomely, inadequately, punctually, etc.) платить /выплачивать/ охотно и т.д.; pay monthly (annually, etc.) платить /выплачивать/ ежемесячно и т.д.; pay at some time I shall pay soon (at once, next week, etc.) я скоро и т.д. заплачу2) pay in some manner this work pays well эта работа выгодна; the mine is paying fairly well эта выработка приносит довольно хороший доход3. III1) pay smb., smth. pay the dressmaker (the tailor, the workmen, a teacher, the electric light company, etc.) платить портнихе и т.д., расплачиваться с портнихой и т.д.; pay the money (the deposit of t 10, the monthly rent, etc.) платить деньги и т.д.; pay an account (a bill) заплатить по счету, расплатиться; pay one's dues внести взносы; pay debts выплачивать долги; pay one's passage (one's bus fare, etc.) платить за проезд и т.д., оплачивать проезд и т.д.; pay one's college вносить плату за обучение в колледже; pay wages платить /выплачивать/ зарплату; pay a subscription уплатить за подписку; I had to pay an extra five roubles мне надо было доплатить пять рублей; pay damages оплачивать /возмещать/ убытки2) pay smb., smth. the job does not pay me эта работа невыгодна; the stock pays 4 per cent эти акции дают /приносят/ четыре процента прибыли4. IVpay smb. in some manner pay smb. liberally (handsomely, meagerly, grudgingly, etc.) платить кому-л. /расплачиваться с кем-л./ щедро и т.д.; pay smth. in some manner pay smth. promptly (partially, grudgingly, etc.) платить /выплачивать/ что-л. аккуратно и т.д.; pay smb., smth. at some time pay smb. at once немедленно /тут же, сразу же/ заплатить кому-л. /расплатиться с кем-л./; he hasn't paid the doctor yet он еще не заплатил врачу /не расплатился с врачом/5. Vpay smb. smth. pay smb. the money one owes заплатить кому-л. долг; pay me the money you owe me верни мне долг /деньги, которые ты должен/; pay smb. an annuity выплачивать кому-л. ренту6. VIIpay smb. to do smth. I pay smb. to mow the lawn (to dig a hole, to baby-sit, etc.) платить кому-л., чтобы он постриг газон и т.д.; they paid him ten pounds to hold his tongue ему заплатили десять фунтов, чтобы он держал язык за зубами; you could not pay me to do that я не сделаю этого ни за какие деньги2)it would not pay me to take that job мне не стоит /не имеет смысла/ брать эту работу; it would pay you to be more careful вам не мешало бы быть поосторожнее; does it pay them to employ such a large stuff? выгодно ли им иметь такой большой штат?7. XIbe paid in some manner he was amply (fabulously) paid ему хорошо (баснословно много) платили; they are generally paid by the distance and not by the time им обычно платят за пройденное расстояние, а не за время; get paid at some time when do you get paid? когда вы получаете зарплату?, когда у вас получка?; get paid for doing smth. do you get paid for baby-sitting? вам платят за то, что вы сидите с ребенком?; be paid at some time we are paid on Fridays мы получаем зарплату по пятницам; when are we going to be paid? когда с нами будут рассчитываться /нам заплатят/?; my subscription is paid to January у меня подписка оплачена до января; freight to be paid before departure [груз] к оплате до отправки (надпись); be paid for the work has been paid for работа уже оплачена; he dislikes to be invited and paid for он терпеть не может, когда его приглашают и за него платят8. XIIIit pays to do smth. it pays to buy good things есть смысл /стоит/ покупать хорошие вещи; it pays to advertize реклама себя оправдывает; it pays to be polite вежливость окупается сторицей; it does not pay to spend too much money on this work не стоит тратить слишком много денег на эту работу; it doesn't pay to get angry злиться не стоит9. XVIpay for smth. pay for the house (for the car, for smb.'s services, for the damage, for the loss, for smb.'s education /schooling/, for board, for a year's subscription, etc.) платить /вносить плату/ за дом и т.д.; he is not paying well for our labour он мало платит за ваш труд; we are paying for the room by the day мы оплачиваем комнату посуточно /поденно/;for one's mistakes (for one's folly, for one's sins, for one's cruelty, for one's idleness, for one's inexperience, etc.) расплачиваться за свои ошибки и т.д.; pay dearly for what one has done дорого заплатить за то, что сделал; he paid for it with his life он поплатился /заплатил/ за это своей жизнью; he paid for his negligence by losing bis situation он потерял работу из-за своей халатности; I'll make him pay for this! он у меня еще за это поплатится!; pay for smb. I shall pay for you я за вас заплачу /расплачусь/; she always pays for herself она всегда платит сама за себя; pay in /by, into/ smth. pay in cash (in ready money, in silver, in kind, etc.) заплатить наличными и т.д.; pay in full (in part) расплачиваться полностью (по частям); you can pay in /by/ instalments вы можете платить /выплачивать/ частями /в рассрочку/; pay in advance заплатить /оплатить/ вперед, заплатить /расплатиться/ заблаговременно; pay into smb.'s account внести деньги на чей-л. счет; pay by cheque оплатить чеком; pay out of smth. pay out of one's own pocket (out of public money, out of the fund, etc.) платить /расплачиваться/ из собственного кармана и т.д.; pay by smth. pay by the hour платить за каждый час, выплачивать почасовые; pay by the year платить [один] раз в год; they pay by the distance (by the time) они платят в зависимости от [пройденного] расстояния (в соответствии с затраченным временем); pay at /in/ smth. pay at the gate (at the turnstile, in the doorway, etc.) платить у ворот и т.д.; pay on smth. pay on delivery оплатить при доставке10. XVIIIpay for oneself pay for itself окупаться, оправдывать расходы; this machine will pay for itself soon эта машина очень скоро себя окупит /окупится/11. XXI1pay smth. for smth. pay a hundred guineas (a lot of money, extra money, too much, etc.) for smth. платить сто гиней и т.д. за что-л.; how much did you pay for your car (for that book, etc.)? сколько вы заплатили за свою машину и т.д.? pay smth. on smth. pay customs duties on imported articles платить пошлину на ввозимые товары; pay interest on public loans платить проценты по займам; pay smth. into smth. pay money into the bank (a sum into your account, taxes into the treasury, etc.) вносить деньги в банк и т.д.; pay smth. with smth. pay a debt with interest вернуть долг с процентами; pay kindness with evil платить злом за добро; pay smth. in smth. pay part of the sum in cash (the rest of the debt in bills, one's debts in four instalments, etc.) заплатить /выплатить/ часть суммы наличными и т.д.; pay smb. in smth. pay smb. in his own coin отплатить кому-л. той же монетой; pay smb. in full полностью расплатиться с кем-л.; pay smb. by smth. pay smb. by the time (by the year, by the hour, etc.) платить кому-л. в зависимости от затраченного времени и т.д.; pay smb., smth. for smth. pay smb. for the work (for his services, for the car, for the painting, etc..) платить кому-л. за работу и т.д.; pay the teacher five dollars for a lesson платить учителю пять долларов за урок; pay smb. for the trouble (for the insults, etc.) отплачивать кому-л. за причиненное беспокойство и т.д.; pay smth. to smb. pay interest to a creditor платить кредитору проценты; pay smth. for smb. he paid five dollars for me он заплатил за меня пять долларов; he paid my debts for me он выплатил мои долги; pay smb. out of smth. pay smb. out of the town funds (out of the public money, out of one's own pocket, etc.) платить кому-л. из городских фондов и т.д. || pay one's respects to smb. засвидетельствовать свое почтение кому-л.; pay a call on smb. наносить визит кому-л.; pay a visit to smb. посещать кого-л.12. XXIV1pay smth. as smth. pay some money as expenses for the evening внести определенную сумму на покрытие расходов за вечер13. XXV -
13 bank
1. n1) банк2) фонд; общий запас
- acceptance bank
- accepting bank
- account-holding bank
- advising bank
- affiliated bank
- agency bank
- agent bank
- agricultural bank
- agroindustrial bank
- ailing bank
- all-purpose bank
- associated banks
- authorized bank
- bankers' bank
- bankrupt bank
- big bank
- book-running lead bank
- borrowing bank
- branch bank
- business bank
- card issuing bank
- cash-strapped bank
- central bank
- Central Bank of Russia
- chartered bank
- clearing bank
- closing bank
- collecting bank
- colonial bank
- combined commercial and investment bank
- commercial bank
- confirming bank
- consortium bank
- consumer-credit bank
- continental bank
- cooperative bank
- corporate bank
- correspondent bank
- country bank
- credit bank
- credit-issuing bank
- creditor bank
- custodian bank
- data bank
- dealer bank
- debt-burdened bank
- debt-laden bank
- debtor bank
- deposit bank
- depository bank
- development bank
- discount bank
- domestic bank
- drawee bank
- drive-in bank
- emitting bank
- European Investment Bank
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- exchange bank
- exporter's bank
- Export-Import Bank
- Federal Intermediate Credit Banks
- Federal Land Bank
- federally-chartered bank
- Federal Reserve Banks
- fictitious bank
- first-class bank
- first-tier bank
- foreign bank
- foreign-owned bank
- fringe banks
- full-service bank
- government-owned bank
- guarantor bank
- High Street banks
- importer's bank
- incorporated bank
- independent bank
- industrial bank
- insolvent bank
- intermediary bank
- intermediate bank
- international bank
- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- International Investment Bank
- interstate banks
- investment bank
- issuing bank
- joint-stock bank
- joint-stock innovation bank
- labour bank
- land bank
- large exposure bank
- lead bank
- leading bank
- lending bank
- loan bank
- local bank
- long-term credit bank
- loss-making bank
- mediating bank
- medium-sized bank
- major bank
- member bank
- mercantile bank
- merchant bank
- mid-sized bank
- mobile bank
- money market bank
- money trading bank
- mortgage bank
- multifunctional bank
- multinational bank
- multiple office bank
- municipal bank
- mutual credit bank
- mutual savings bank
- national bank
- negotiating bank
- nominated bank
- nonmember bank
- nonpar bank
- nonperforming bank
- notifying bank
- offshore bank
- opening bank
- originating bank
- outsider bank
- overseas bank
- parent bank
- paying bank
- penny bank
- primary bank
- prime bank
- private bank
- private sector banks
- provident bank
- provincial bank
- reference bank
- remitting bank
- reserve bank
- retail bank
- rural bank
- savings bank
- secondary bank
- small bank
- specialized bank
- state bank
- stock exchange bank
- stock savings bank
- third country bank
- thrift bank
- trading bank
- transferring bank
- troubled bank
- trust bank
- trustee bank
- trustee savings bank
- underwriting bank
- venture bank
- wholesale bank
- wildcat bank
- World Bank
- bank for international settlements
- bank of circulation
- bank of deposit
- bank of discount
- Bank of England
- bank of good standing
- bank of issue
- bank of settlements
- bank on a sharing basis
- bank with mixed capital
- authorize a bank
- bail out a bank
- bolster a bank
- deposit money with a bank
- draw money from a bank
- draw on a bank
- establish a bank
- expand a bank
- instruct a bank
- keep in a bank
- merge banks
- nationalize a bank
- pay into a bank
- pay through a bank
- prop up a bank
- run a bank
- set up a bank
- undercut the banks
- bank has gone bankrupt
- bank forfeited its licence
- bank, deprived of its licence2. vвносить деньги в банк; держать деньги в банке
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14 loan
1. nзаем; ссуда; кредит
- accommodation loan
- active loan
- adjustable mortgage loan
- advance loan
- agency loan
- agricultural loan
- amortization loan
- asset-based loan
- back-to-back loan
- bad loan
- balloon loan
- bank loan
- banking sector's nonperforming loans
- bank-to-bank loan
- below-market loan
- big loan
- bilateral loan
- blank loan
- borrowed-pledge security loan
- bottomry loan
- bridge loan
- bridging loan
- broker's loan
- building loan
- bullet loan
- business loan
- call loan
- callable loan
- capped floating rate loan
- cash loan
- character loan
- cheap loan
- clearance loan
- collared floating rate loan
- collateral loan
- collateralized loan
- commercial loan
- committed loan
- commodity loan
- compulsory loan
- concessionary loan
- consolidated loan
- consumption loan
- corporate loan
- Crown loan
- currency loan
- customer's loan
- daily loan
- day loan
- day-to-day loan
- dead loan
- dealer loan
- defaulted loan
- delinquent loan
- demand loan
- development loan
- direct loan
- disbursed loan
- discount loan
- discount interest loan
- distressed loan
- dollar loan
- domestic loan
- downstream loan
- droplock loan
- dud loan
- emergency loan
- emergency reconstruction loan
- Eurocurrency loan
- Eurosyndicated loans
- excess loan
- export adjustment loan
- external loan
- farm loan
- federal loan
- fiduciary loan
- fixed loan
- fixed-date loan
- fixed-interest loan
- fixed rate loan
- floated loan
- floating-rate loan
- forced loan
- foreign loan
- free-limit loan
- frozen loan
- funded loan
- funding loan
- gold loan
- government loan
- hard loan
- hedged loan
- high-interest loan
- home loan
- home finance loan
- home improvement loan
- housing construction loan
- hybrid loan
- indexed loan
- industrial loan
- industrial and trade policy adjustment loan
- installment loan
- interbank loan
- intercompany loan
- interest bearing loan
- interest-free loan
- interim loan
- intermediate loan
- internal loan
- inventory loan
- investment loan
- jeopardy loan
- jumbo loan
- large loan
- limited recourse loan
- local loan
- lombard loan
- long loan
- long-dated loan
- long-period loan
- long-sighted loan
- long-term loan
- long-term mortgage loan
- low-interest loan
- low-interest-rate mortgage loan
- lucrative loan
- margin loan
- market loan
- medium-term loan
- money loan
- morning loan
- mortgage loan
- multicurrency loan
- multilateral loan
- municipal loan
- national loan
- negative amortization loan
- net loans
- nonperforming loan
- on call loan
- one-off purpose-oriented loan
- outstanding loan
- overage loan
- overdue loan
- overnight loan
- package loan
- parallel loan
- participating loan
- participation loan
- past-due loan
- performing loan
- permanent loan
- permanent government loan
- perpetual loan
- personal loan
- pledge loan
- poorly performing loan
- precarious loan
- prematured loan
- prime-rate loan
- problem loan
- programme loan
- public loan
- purpose loan
- real estate loan
- receivable loan
- reconstruction loan
- recourse loan
- redeemable loan
- redemption loan
- rehabilitation import loan
- reimbursable loan
- renegotiated loan
- repaid loan
- replacement loan
- resetter loan
- seasonal loan
- seasoned loan
- sector loan
- sector adjustment loan
- sector investment and maintenance loan
- secured loan
- securities loan
- securitized loan
- self-liquidating loan
- self-liquidation loan
- senior loan
- short loan
- short-dated loan
- short-sighted loan
- short-term floating rate loan
- short-time loan
- sight loan
- signature loan
- simple-interest loan
- single loan
- sinking-fund loan
- small business loan
- soft loan
- sovereign loan
- sovereign-risk loan
- stabilization loan
- stand-by loan
- state loan
- sterling loan
- stock exchange loan
- straight loan
- street loan
- subsidiary loan
- swing loan
- syndicate loan
- tax-exempt loan
- technical assistance loan
- term loan
- tied loan
- time loan
- time-slice loan
- underperforming loan
- undersubscribed loan
- underwater loan
- undisbursed loan
- unlimited loan
- unrecoverable loan
- unsecured loan
- upstream loan
- utilized loan
- variable rate loan
- viable loan
- watch loan
- weekly loan
- loan against borrower's note
- loan against goods
- loan against a guarantee
- loan against hypothecation of goods
- loan against payment documents
- loan against pledged bills
- loan against pledge of goods
- loan against a promissory note
- loan against securities
- loan against shares
- loan at call
- loan at interest
- loan at notice
- loan for a period of
- loan in sterling
- loan of money
- loan on bills of exchange
- loan on call
- loan on collateral
- loan on debentures
- loan on easy terms
- loan on favourable terms
- loan on goods
- loan on interest
- loan on landed property
- loan on merchandise
- loan on mortgage
- loan on pawn
- loan on policy
- loan on securities
- loan on the security of bills
- loan on short notice
- loans to customers
- loan without interest
- loan without security
- loan with participations
- loan with strings attached
- loan bearing no interest
- loan payable on request of the creditor
- accelerate a loan
- accommodate with a loan
- advance a loan
- allow a loan
- apply for a loan
- assess delinquent loans
- back a loan
- book loans
- call in a loan
- cancel a call loan
- complete a loan
- contract a loan
- cover a loan
- default on a loan
- disburse a loan
- downgrade a loan
- extend a loan
- finance a loan
- float a loan
- forfeit a loan
- get a loan
- give a loan
- grant a loan
- guarantee a loan
- issue a loan
- launch a loan
- liquidate a loan
- make a loan
- meet a loan
- monitor a loan
- negotiate a loan
- obtain a loan
- offer a loan
- pay back a loan
- pay down a loan
- pay off a loan
- place a loan
- provide a loan
- put out on loan
- qualify for a loan
- raise a loan
- recall a loan
- redeem a loan
- renew a loan
- repay a loan
- request a loan
- retire a loan
- retrieve a loan
- secure a loan
- secure a new loan
- service a loan
- sink a loan
- slash loans
- subscribe to a loan
- support a loan
- take up a loan
- warrant a loan
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17 World War II
(1939-1945)In the European phase of the war, neutral Portugal contributed more to the Allied victory than historians have acknowledged. Portugal experienced severe pressures to compromise her neutrality from both the Axis and Allied powers and, on several occasions, there were efforts to force Portugal to enter the war as a belligerent. Several factors lent Portugal importance as a neutral. This was especially the case during the period from the fall of France in June 1940 to the Allied invasion and reconquest of France from June to August 1944.In four respects, Portugal became briefly a modest strategic asset for the Allies and a war materiel supplier for both sides: the country's location in the southwesternmost corner of the largely German-occupied European continent; being a transport and communication terminus, observation post for spies, and crossroads between Europe, the Atlantic, the Americas, and Africa; Portugal's strategically located Atlantic islands, the Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde archipelagos; and having important mines of wolfram or tungsten ore, crucial for the war industry for hardening steel.To maintain strict neutrality, the Estado Novo regime dominated by Antônio de Oliveira Salazar performed a delicate balancing act. Lisbon attempted to please and cater to the interests of both sets of belligerents, but only to the extent that the concessions granted would not threaten Portugal's security or its status as a neutral. On at least two occasions, Portugal's neutrality status was threatened. First, Germany briefly considered invading Portugal and Spain during 1940-41. A second occasion came in 1943 and 1944 as Great Britain, backed by the United States, pressured Portugal to grant war-related concessions that threatened Portugal's status of strict neutrality and would possibly bring Portugal into the war on the Allied side. Nazi Germany's plan ("Operation Felix") to invade the Iberian Peninsula from late 1940 into 1941 was never executed, but the Allies occupied and used several air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands.The second major crisis for Portugal's neutrality came with increasing Allied pressures for concessions from the summer of 1943 to the summer of 1944. Led by Britain, Portugal's oldest ally, Portugal was pressured to grant access to air and naval bases in the Azores Islands. Such bases were necessary to assist the Allies in winning the Battle of the Atlantic, the naval war in which German U-boats continued to destroy Allied shipping. In October 1943, following tedious negotiations, British forces began to operate such bases and, in November 1944, American forces were allowed to enter the islands. Germany protested and made threats, but there was no German attack.Tensions rose again in the spring of 1944, when the Allies demanded that Lisbon cease exporting wolfram to Germany. Salazar grew agitated, considered resigning, and argued that Portugal had made a solemn promise to Germany that wolfram exports would be continued and that Portugal could not break its pledge. The Portuguese ambassador in London concluded that the shipping of wolfram to Germany was "the price of neutrality." Fearing that a still-dangerous Germany could still attack Portugal, Salazar ordered the banning of the mining, sale, and exports of wolfram not only to Germany but to the Allies as of 6 June 1944.Portugal did not enter the war as a belligerent, and its forces did not engage in combat, but some Portuguese experienced directly or indirectly the impact of fighting. Off Portugal or near her Atlantic islands, Portuguese naval personnel or commercial fishermen rescued at sea hundreds of victims of U-boat sinkings of Allied shipping in the Atlantic. German U-boats sank four or five Portuguese merchant vessels as well and, in 1944, a U-boat stopped, boarded, searched, and forced the evacuation of a Portuguese ocean liner, the Serpa Pinto, in mid-Atlantic. Filled with refugees, the liner was not sunk but several passengers lost their lives and the U-boat kidnapped two of the ship's passengers, Portuguese Americans of military age, and interned them in a prison camp. As for involvement in a theater of war, hundreds of inhabitants were killed and wounded in remote East Timor, a Portuguese colony near Indonesia, which was invaded, annexed, and ruled by Japanese forces between February 1942 and August 1945. In other incidents, scores of Allied military planes, out of fuel or damaged in air combat, crashed or were forced to land in neutral Portugal. Air personnel who did not survive such crashes were buried in Portuguese cemeteries or in the English Cemetery, Lisbon.Portugal's peripheral involvement in largely nonbelligerent aspects of the war accelerated social, economic, and political change in Portugal's urban society. It strengthened political opposition to the dictatorship among intellectual and working classes, and it obliged the regime to bolster political repression. The general economic and financial status of Portugal, too, underwent improvements since creditor Britain, in order to purchase wolfram, foods, and other materials needed during the war, became indebted to Portugal. When Britain repaid this debt after the war, Portugal was able to restore and expand its merchant fleet. Unlike most of Europe, ravaged by the worst war in human history, Portugal did not suffer heavy losses of human life, infrastructure, and property. Unlike even her neighbor Spain, badly shaken by its terrible Civil War (1936-39), Portugal's immediate postwar condition was more favorable, especially in urban areas, although deep-seated poverty remained.Portugal experienced other effects, especially during 1939-42, as there was an influx of about a million war refugees, an infestation of foreign spies and other secret agents from 60 secret intelligence services, and the residence of scores of international journalists who came to report the war from Lisbon. There was also the growth of war-related mining (especially wolfram and tin). Portugal's media eagerly reported the war and, by and large, despite government censorship, the Portuguese print media favored the Allied cause. Portugal's standard of living underwent some improvement, although price increases were unpopular.The silent invasion of several thousand foreign spies, in addition to the hiring of many Portuguese as informants and spies, had fascinating outcomes. "Spyland" Portugal, especially when Portugal was a key point for communicating with occupied Europe (1940-44), witnessed some unusual events, and spying for foreigners at least briefly became a national industry. Until mid-1944, when Allied forces invaded France, Portugal was the only secure entry point from across the Atlantic to Europe or to the British Isles, as well as the escape hatch for refugees, spies, defectors, and others fleeing occupied Europe or Vichy-controlled Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Through Portugal by car, ship, train, or scheduled civil airliner one could travel to and from Spain or to Britain, or one could leave through Portugal, the westernmost continental country of Europe, to seek refuge across the Atlantic in the Americas.The wartime Portuguese scene was a colorful melange of illegal activities, including espionage, the black market, war propaganda, gambling, speculation, currency counterfeiting, diamond and wolfram smuggling, prostitution, and the drug and arms trade, and they were conducted by an unusual cast of characters. These included refugees, some of whom were spies, smugglers, diplomats, and business people, many from foreign countries seeking things they could find only in Portugal: information, affordable food, shelter, and security. German agents who contacted Allied sailors in the port of Lisbon sought to corrupt and neutralize these men and, if possible, recruit them as spies, and British intelligence countered this effort. Britain's MI-6 established a new kind of "safe house" to protect such Allied crews from German espionage and venereal disease infection, an approved and controlled house of prostitution in Lisbon's bairro alto district.Foreign observers and writers were impressed with the exotic, spy-ridden scene in Lisbon, as well as in Estoril on the Sun Coast (Costa do Sol), west of Lisbon harbor. What they observed appeared in noted autobiographical works and novels, some written during and some after the war. Among notable writers and journalists who visited or resided in wartime Portugal were Hungarian writer and former communist Arthur Koestler, on the run from the Nazi's Gestapo; American radio broadcaster-journalist Eric Sevareid; novelist and Hollywood script-writer Frederick Prokosch; American diplomat George Kennan; Rumanian cultural attache and later scholar of mythology Mircea Eliade; and British naval intelligence officer and novelist-to-be Ian Fleming. Other notable visiting British intelligence officers included novelist Graham Greene; secret Soviet agent in MI-6 and future defector to the Soviet Union Harold "Kim" Philby; and writer Malcolm Muggeridge. French letters were represented by French writer and airman, Antoine Saint-Exupery and French playwright, Jean Giroudoux. Finally, Aquilino Ribeiro, one of Portugal's premier contemporary novelists, wrote about wartime Portugal, including one sensational novel, Volframio, which portrayed the profound impact of the exploitation of the mineral wolfram on Portugal's poor, still backward society.In Estoril, Portugal, the idea for the world's most celebrated fictitious spy, James Bond, was probably first conceived by Ian Fleming. Fleming visited Portugal several times after 1939 on Naval Intelligence missions, and later he dreamed up the James Bond character and stories. Background for the early novels in the James Bond series was based in part on people and places Fleming observed in Portugal. A key location in Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953) is the gambling Casino of Estoril. In addition, one aspect of the main plot, the notion that a spy could invent "secret" intelligence for personal profit, was observed as well by the British novelist and former MI-6 officer, while engaged in operations in wartime Portugal. Greene later used this information in his 1958 spy novel, Our Man in Havana, as he observed enemy agents who fabricated "secrets" for money.Thus, Portugal's World War II experiences introduced the country and her people to a host of new peoples, ideas, products, and influences that altered attitudes and quickened the pace of change in this quiet, largely tradition-bound, isolated country. The 1943-45 connections established during the Allied use of air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands were a prelude to Portugal's postwar membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). -
18 Roebuck, John
SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology[br]b. 1718 Sheffield, Englandd. 17 July 1794[br]English chemist and manufacturer, inventor of the lead-chamber process for sulphuric acid.[br]The son of a prosperous Sheffield manufacturer, Roebuck forsook the family business to pursue studies in medicine at Edinburgh University. There he met Dr Joseph Black (1727–99), celebrated Professor of Chemistry, who aroused in Roebuck a lasting interest in chemistry. Roebuck continued his studies at Leyden, where he took his medical degree in 1742. He set up in practice in Birmingham, but in his spare time he continued chemical experiments that might help local industries.Among his early achievements was his new method of refining gold and silver. Success led to the setting up of a large laboratory and a reputation as a chemical consultant. It was at this time that Roebuck devised an improved way of making sulphuric acid. This vital substance was then made by burning sulphur and nitre (potassium nitrate) over water in a glass globe. The scale of the process was limited by the fragility of the glass. Roebuck substituted "lead chambers", or vessels consisting of sheets of lead, a metal both cheap and resistant to acids, set in wooden frames. After the first plant was set up in 1746, productivity rose and the price of sulphuric acid fell sharply. Success encouraged Roebuck to establish a second, larger plant at Prestonpans, near Edinburgh. He preferred to rely on secrecy rather than patents to preserve his monopoly, but a departing employee took the secret with him and the process spread rapidly in England and on the European continent. It remained the standard process until it was superseded by the contact process towards the end of the nineteenth century. Roebuck next turned his attention to ironmaking and finally selected a site on the Carron river, near Falkirk in Scotland, where the raw materials and water power and transport lay close at hand. The Carron ironworks began producing iron in 1760 and became one of the great names in the history of ironmaking. Roebuck was an early proponent of the smelting of iron with coke, pioneered by Abraham Darby at Coalbrookdale. To supply the stronger blast required, Roebuck consulted John Smeaton, who c. 1760 installed the first blowing cylinders of any size.All had so far gone well for Roebuck, but he now leased coal-mines and salt-works from the Duke of Hamilton's lands at Borrowstonness in Linlithgow. The coal workings were plagued with flooding which the existing Newcomen engines were unable to overcome. Through his friendship with Joseph Black, patron of James Watt, Roebuck persuaded Watt to join him to apply his improved steam-engine to the flooded mine. He took over Black's loan to Watt of £1,200, helped him to obtain the first steam-engine patent of 1769 and took a two-thirds interest in the project. However, the new engine was not yet equal to the task and the debts mounted. To satisfy his creditors, Roebuck had to dispose of his capital in his various ventures. One creditor was Matthew Boulton, who accepted Roebuck's two-thirds share in Watt's steam-engine, rather than claim payment from his depleted estate, thus initiating a famous partnership. Roebuck was retained to manage Borrowstonness and allowed an annuity for his continued support until his death in 1794.[br]Further ReadingMemoir of John Roebuck in J.Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. 4 (1798), pp. 65–87.S.Gregory, 1987, "John Roebuck, 18th century entrepreneur", Chem. Engr. 443:28–31.LRD
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