Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baker's gift enabled the school to collect its scattered bookshelves into a single library, to own its own classrooms and buildings, and to call itself an independent school...
Granting that snobbery can play a large part in art collecting, the Manhattan market, caters increasingly to middle-income buyers who collect little-known artists for sheer, not sneer, enjoyment. Since a layman's taste is apt to be better than he imagines, such independent collectors may find themselves possessing the blue-chip pictures of a future market. The blue chips of the School of Paris have now climbed sky-high in price, may or may not go higher. Last month Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art paid $20,500 for a Soutine landscape that sold at only...
...Chase National Bank to help U.S. businessmen compete with foreign companies, whose governments often underwrite long-term payments. Chase's plan is to form a huge credit pool called Foreign Finance Co. to minimize the risk to any one company. Under the plan, exporters would only collect a 20-25% down payment from foreign buyers; the remaining 75-80% would be financed jointly by the company itself, the Export-Import Bank and the new Foreign Finance...
...separate organizations composed of alumni and friends, the Friends of Harvard Baseball, Hockey, and Rowing have always conducted separate drives for funds. The baseball group was organized last year to collect funds to send the nine south for five pre-season games...
...addition, the Business School will use part of the Ford Foundation grant to collect business cases from other institutions...