Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trip to the Planets and Stars" will be the topic of a lecture by Charles Federer Jr., editor of Sky and Telescope, on Thursday, November 20; while Horace Taylor, past president of the Bond Astronomical Club, which is sponsoring the talks, will discuss "All Illustrated, Story of the Moon," on Friday, November...
...people of many a U.S. city, department stores are important centers of civic activities. During the war, for instance, they were focal points of war bond sales. Their auditoriums (many stores have them) are used by such organizations as the Community Chest and the Red Cross. Lately, in their own interest and that of their customers, many stores have enlarged and improved their music departments in response to a steadily increasing interest in music, especially classical, on the part of the public. Evidence of this increased interest is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that...
...bridges and tunnels* last year went 41,202,474 toll-paying motorists. In 19 years the Authority earned some $244,000,000 in toll charges, pier fees and rents. This covered its operating costs, and left $99,000,000 over for improvements, reserves and the reduction of its bonded debt, now $525,530,778. Its credit is such that one $18,757,000 bond, issue was sold at an interest rate of I.358%, lowest ever recorded for any municipal or state issue...
...letter to the University community, President Conant urged support of the fund because it is "an expression" of "the strong bond of interest" that "marks our community life...
...Purana, he could recall, says that the life of man will run in four cycles. The last is to be the Age of Kali. It closes in, says the book, when "society reaches a stage where property confers rank, wealth, becomes the only source of virtue, passion, the sole bond of union between husband and wife, falsehood the source of success in life, sex the only means of enjoyment, and when outer trappings are confused with inner religion...