Word: bond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before Alabama became a state (1819), riffraff, bond jumpers, cardsharps and other fugitives from Georgia were crossing the muddy Chattahoochee River to find haven in wicked little Phenix City. As time passed, respectable families came to Phenix City, too, but gamblers, pimps and narcotics pushers still ran the town, and fattened on the trade of soldiers from Ft. Benning, just across the river near Columbus, Ga. This year Lawyer Albert L. Patterson ran for attorney general of Alabama on a pledge to shut down vice throughout the state, and especially in his home town of Phenix City...
...this prove? "I've found," answered Rotary's newly inducted President Herbert J. Taylor, an aluminum man from Chicago, "that Rotary Clubs the world over are pretty much the same, whether they are in Bangkok or Boise. Rotary provides something that is unique: a common bond between different peoples." And that, in the context of a dark, gloomy day for diplomacy, was something to slap a back about...
From then on, their percentage began to drop slightly, but the only major change was in their composition. Public utilities and industrials which once dominated the bond total were slowly replaced by U.S. Governments in 1942. Today, bonds--half of which are U.S. Government--comprise about 44 percent of the University's investment total...
...University has a special contract with the Trust Co., which keeps Harvard's securities in its vaults as well as collecting dividends and clipping coupons for the busy Treasurer. The latter job, by the way, undoubtedly involves countless man-hours, for the current market value of the school's bond portfolio approximates...
...center of operations. To the men who had trod the bricks for ten months, it was a face-saving gesture-and a costly sop. During the strike the workers lost more than $4,000,000 in wages, and the union went into debt by floating a $500,000 bond issue to support the strikers...