Word: investments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could mass-produce thousands of prefabricated houses, made chiefly of enameled steel sheets. All Lustron needed for the job, said Strandlund, was a little help, such as the Dodge plant and a loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. of from $32 to $52 million. Lustron was willing to invest as much as $36,000 of its own money to get the RFC loan...
...should be alarmed over the arbitrary method by which his money is allocated to non-charitable organizations through the College. His contributions to this Fund, made under the general impression that this money was to be devoted to various charities, enabled the Council to invest $3400 in various Freshman affairs over a period of five years. It is true that $2700 of this money was returned to the Council, but what of the balance of $700, what of the scholarships that could be granted for that money, and what system o auditing was employed to insure that this money...
Above all of the confusion and the crowds there still remains an intangible--the Harvard name--which, for better or worse, has attracted 2000 men who are willing to invest four crucial years and want the best possible returns. If the record is any sort of evidence, they have little to fear...
...well as that of the library and the science laboratories. pursuing and accepting endowments is a nasty business for any college, but if it is done for certain phases of academic activity, it must be done for all. Certainly those who are so devoted to Harvard that they would invest in its future should be advised to invest where the need is greatest and the investment most useful...
...Army plans to invest some $90 million, a third of it in basic research. An additional $40 million of the Army's Manhattan District (nuclear) funds are earmarked for research. By last week the District was well along in arrangements for a chain of regional laboratories across the nation. Biggest: the Argonne Laboratory near Chicago, headed by 39-year-old Physicist Walter Henry Zinn. The University of Chicago, the Mayo Clinic and 22 other Midwest institutions will help run Argonne via an advisory board, will use it as a center for research in nuclear physics, biochemistry and other fields...