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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...empire (now grown to six mills employing 1,372 in Maine, Vermont. Massachusetts and New Hampshire) never became a major factor in the industry, but it gave him the funds to begin major investments in real estate in mid-Depression. One day he heard that Western Union wanted to build on a choice block near the financial district, so he bought a corner building as a toe hold, quietly worked out a deal with Western Union to pick up the rest of the property on percentage. His profit...
...experience in the factories was distressingly clear proof that the government would have to raise an unthinkable $1 billion or $2 billion to build enough plants to industrialize the island. Without ado, Muñoz & Co. sold the government-owned plants to get capital for what Moscoso calls the "incentive and promotional approach," aimed at giving a "multiplier effect" to the government's investment. Instead of "permitting" (in the word of many a nationalist demagogue) the entry of outside capital, Puerto Rico resolved to dragoon or inveigle...
...have got to live and build, while we have the time, a fuller and freer world for ourselves. We have got to see that not only our military alliances but our political thought and economic policies match up to the level of the great scientific and technical advances which the world has made. Whether it be in a great Commonwealth like ours or a great continent like yours, we can no longer afford to think parochially...
...meat, milk and butter, his program for abolishing tractor stations, his scheme to build a chemical industry to make better clothes for consumers? Weren't those new ideas...
...benefit of other benefactors, Yale made out a list of gifts - enormous, huge or merely sizable - that it would like to receive within five years: $14 million for graduate fellowships, undergraduate scholarships and student loans; $10 million for faculty pay raises; $6,447,000 for a new geology building, geology teaching and research ; $6,000,000 for twelve new professorships; $3,931,000 to build a new school of art and architecture, remodel the existing school; $1,000,000 for the Yale University Press...