Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After six years of scrimping and saving, going into bankruptcy and buying himself out again, Ashe got rid of his debt. By 1936, he had managed to buy up 59 acres, collect 1,000 students. Then, during the war, the university suddenly began to boom. R.A.F. trainees and G.I.s were sent there by the thousands. After them came hordes of veterans. With a $5,000,000 loan from FHA, Ashe started creating the campus he had always dreamed of. In 1947, he opened the streamlined Memorial Classroom Building-the first real building the university had ever...
...Cambridge, Jakobson and his wife have settled in an apartment on Prescott Street. Typical of a scholar's living quarters, the flat's living room is dominated by a massive desk littered with papers. Books scattered through the room are beginnings to collect under the windows. At night, all the local Slavic students trickle into the apartment for little chats with Jakobson; they stop in with a question, to solicit encouragement, or to draw Jakobson into an illuminating discussion. Employing his unbelievable energy even in conversation, he gesticulates constantly, emphasizing his remarks with a stab of his hand...
...says there are Catholic pictures on the walls and religious statues given as prizes, but it is a child's way to collect pictures and souvenirs of those they admire. Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio have decorated half the boys' rooms in America. Are they more worthy than Christ or the Virgin Mary, or some of the great saints of history...
...magazine, newspaper and book publishers (along with other U.S. businessmen who invest abroad) to buy "convertibility insurance" from the Government. The insurance (bought at 1? for every dollar involved) guaranteed U.S. publishers that, if they could not convert into dollars the money they received from foreign sales, they could collect dollars from the U.S. Treasury in return for their blocked currencies. The program was one of the most effective means of getting U.S. publications around the world, and under it millions of magazines, books and newspapers have gone abroad. Furthermore, although $8.4 million has been paid out, the money comes...
...state constitution requires the city to get state authorization for all new taxes and increases in old taxes.) Dewey turned down the requests, announced that he would "save the city from the catastrophic mismanagement of its own officials." Nub of Dewey's own program: let the city collect an additional $50 million in real-estate taxes, on condition that the city agree to set up an autonomous five-man transit authority (two members to be appointed by Dewey) to operate the city-owned subways and surface lines on a self-sustaining basis (i.e., increase the subway fare...