Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...School alumni have already contributed $825,000 to the School's campaign for $2,500,000. The fund drive began Thursday night with a dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston...
...adopted in this session and certainly will not be adopted without extensive modifications. The Administration looks for great political appeal in the plan--to the farmers with high support prices, and to labor with low market prices. Although at present the plan is largely the result of campaign promises, it contains some interesting possibilities for a long range agricultural plan...
...Even the airline and aircraft industries, which had long been ailing, were perking up. Prime example: Douglas Aircraft Co., which had earned only $23,862 in 1948's first quarter, this year earned $2 million, the result of rearmament contracts and a cost-cutting campaign. American Airlines, which lost $4.2 million in the 1948 quarter, cut its loss...
Precept & Example. In Memphis, Traffic-Safety Expert Forrest Mottweiler explained to the ambulance driver why he had crashed into a concrete post: he had fallen asleep at the wheel. In Los Angeles, William V. Mendenhall of Angeles National Forest Service was checking plans for the annual fire-prevention campaign when the pack of matches he was carrying in his hip pocket set his trousers afire. In Baltimore, Kinsey H. Dillon was indicted for evading payment of $4,819 in income taxes for 1945-46, the same years he was employed as a government auditor to check reports of income...
...Campaign Chairman Frederick M. Fialkow '51 expects the drive to slide over its quota, but last night urged men not already signed up to add to the donations. All blood collected goes to local hospitals for use by patients who cannot afford the cost of blood transfusions...