Word: optional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kluszewski, 22, onetime Indiana University football end, is playing his second season of pro ball. He is on option from the Cincinnati Reds, who gave him a $15,000 bonus for signing. But before he moves up to the majors, he will first have to convince someone that he can bat in more runs than he lets...
...mandatory universal program represents a real challenge to the central thesis of General Education. This is simply that in the thought and action of great men lies that "Western Tradition" which should reach every student in explicit fashion. By permitting the scrupulously tended GE courses to become another option of the undergraduate shopping for intellectual condiment, the underlying crucial purpose will slip away from sight. Similarly, the poll results show that an overwhelming number of men now in the courses feel increased enrollment in the section meetings will drastically lower instruction value. Will not the jump in size which must...
...annuity which would add some $10,000 to the $18,000-a-year pension which he is slated to receive at 60; 3) a royalty of $5 for each unit sold over 5,000 of a motorized wheelbarrow that Bell invented. The directors also set up a stock option plan for Bell to buy up to 50,000 shares of common at prices as low as half the market value...
Many stockholders immediately let out a bellow against Bell. Loudest came from Wall Streeter Jackson Martindell, whose company, Fiduciary Management, Inc., owns or controls 14,300 Bell shares. So Bell dropped the stock option plan. With Edward R. Stettinius Jr., Martindell set up a committee to oust seven of Bell's board, charging Bell was not entitled to the benefits...
...Days. Already they had an option to buy Lone Star for $7,500,000 (with no initial down payment), and three of the Oklahoma mines. But WAA insisted on additional operating capital of $1,000,000, to be raised within ten days. So Carpenter & friends organized a financial posse, struck out for the red clay hills around Daingerfield. At crossroad gatherings and town rallies, they sold thousands of shares of stock, got some $100,000 from Longview (pop. 13,758) alone...