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Word: fund (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor statesmanship of the highest order. He continued to press for the wage increases that brought average U.M.W. pay from $6 a day in 1920 to $11.75 after the war to $24.25 today. He fought for, got, and managed with integrity a $150-million-a-year health-and-welfare fund, went to bat on Capitol Hill for important mine-safety legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fighter's Retreat | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...Frenchmen took special pride in paying off $200 million on a debt to the International Monetary Fund ahead of schedule, piled up their first trade surplus with the U.S. in 60 years, and grew so confident that one Belgian banker remarked: "The French no longer have an inferiority complex growing out of their defeat in the war and their economic troubles. In fact, they have just the opposite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Hard Work and Vast U.S. Investment Begin to Pay Off | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Locked Out. In Columbia, S.C., About Face Editor James Bradley was invited to a Greater Columbia United Fund dinner, regretfully declined because of previous commitments, explained that his weekly is published by state penitentiary convicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...results were announced: out of deep pockets in three weeks flowed 18 six-figure gifts totaling $3,100,000, to boost the pledges to $75 million. No sooner had the word been issued than other Harvard-men jumped in to help raise the remaining $7,500,000. Sample: Fund Chairman H. Irving Pratt dropped a casual note to one alumnus who had already given $100,000, promptly got back a pledge for $100,000 more. From Manhattan, Pratt raised $50,000 with three phone calls in a single hour. One previous giver, listed as possibly good for another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Biggest Fund | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...Charles Dana has reached the age when rich Americans take up the art of giving away money. But not for him the faceless foundation, or the fund raiser with a checklist of millionaires. Dana picks his own targets, pounces on them with tough-minded charity. For the past three years, he has personally "traipsed myself up and down the South," scouting the needs and virtues of a dozen small, obscure colleges. So far, he has seeded seven campuses with more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Halfway Giver | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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