Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comparative amounts the University holds in bonds, common stocks, and real estate have shifted somewhat since 1936. Thirty-three percent of the total is now invested in government bonds. The University held no government bonds at all in 1936. Holdings in common stocks have also increased from twenty-nine percent in 1936 to thirty-six percent in 1947. Sign of the times: this trend continued during 1946-47, when the University added $6 million to its common stock investments. Claflin attributes to "larger dividends from common stocks" the fact that in 1947 balances were more favorable than in 1946. Both...
Discriminatory taxes on exports, and taxes within any nation which discriminated against imported goods, were prohibited. So were such transportation hobbles as the Canadian law preventing trucks from carrying U.S. goods in bond across Canada...
...nation's heartbeat is in its cities. This year, on the lake fronts, at the railheads, in the mountains, on the seaboards, the cities of the U.S., prospering in the postwar boom, throbbed with civic projects, civic pride, bond issues, expanding industry and trade. In old, carefree and once corrupt New Orleans, now reformed and very businesslike, the heartbeat was firm...
...pushed through a $23,500,000 bond issue, and last month he signed contracts for a new union railroad station, a score of under-and overpasses, the filling of the now useless canal which bisects the city. If he has his way, slums will be cleared, a new civic center will rise and the whole city will be spanned by super-express highways already designed by New York's equally energetic Park Commissioner Robert Moses. His opponents call Chep "Little Caesar," "Big Head" and "The Kid Mayor," but they have learned to respect his punch and zing...
...weekly habit of reading TIME has built up a communality of interest among our readers. They tell us that TIME has become their frame of reference, that its news stories not only provoke intelligent, active discussion and supply the facts upon which it is based, but also provide a bond of broad interest for immediate conversation wherever TIME readers meet...