Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David R. Sanders '44 and William C. Dunckel '44, sponsors of Winthrop House War Bond and Stamp sale, have announced a self-satisfied total of war sales this week amounting to $1120.70, a feat of excellence for which they credit themselves entirely...
President Lowell refused to hop on the bandwagon which was heading for big-time football in the 1920's. Groups of alumni approached him with the proposition of floating a sizable bond issue to finance an enormous new Stadium. But financial acumen and antipathy to perverting sport for the sake of recreation to a money-making racket led him to turn down the suggestion, though the action earned many enemies...
...Treasury and the nation's security dealers last month showed what careful preparation and attention to public demand can do in the business of financing the Government. Starting Dec. 1 to raise $9 billions, it succeeded in raising well over $11 billions before Christmas-the biggest single bond campaign in any country's history...
...notes. Within a few months the 1937 stockmarket break had forced out one of the trio, the second had taken a back seat. Bob was soon in a head-to-head fight with underwriters Morgan Stanley & Co. (over competitive bidding on C. & O. and other bond issues) and a court skirmish with Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co (over control of C. & O. voting rights). He finally won both scraps after he had spent months weeding out the opposition, forcing changes in directors, improving railroad finances. By last week, when his three pals were elected presidents of his roads...
...Bond sales have risen recently, John Ellison, head chairman of the committee, announced last night, refusing to comment as to whether or not the increase was due to the incentive of the pictures contributed by Milton O. Caniff. In all the Houses during the next few days, furthermore, attempts will be made to raise this total still further by encouraging students to give bonds for Christmas presents...