Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half of a million dollar estate willed to the University a year ago by Dr. Harry L. Frevert '05 may go to Eva Jean Schulz, who claims to be his widow by virtue of a common law marriage...
...want, you can decide for yourself where your money will go. Eight charities are listed on the solicitation card, including the World Stud net Service Fund, the American Cancer Society, the Red Cross, and the Greater Boston Community Fund. You can also specify at least one dollar for Christmas seals and receive yours prepaid. If, however, none of the listed Charities appeal to you, you may chose whatever you want so long as it is non-denominational...
...government at week's end to give up its price-control program as a failure, unfreeze price and wage ceilings. Overnight Shanghai prices increased four to five times. The new gold yuan (TIME, Aug. 30) had started on the same giddy spiral as the old Chinese national dollar...
...correct any misconceptions about industrial profits, 42 members of I.I.I., including some privately owned companies which were under no obligation to show figures, totaled their profits and distributed the figures to employees. While most employees thought the companies were making up to 35? on each dollar of income, the figures showed that the average profit was actually around 7?. Along with open books, I.I.I, sponsored a program of open houses in factories...
...buried on the hill"). "We still like John," explained one of the Hales, with the chilly politeness of a Marquand character. "He has as much right there now as we have. He has relatives buried up on the hill." But "we judge everything on the heart, John on the dollar." And some things are simply not done, even in 1948: "He is using the proceeds of Wickford Point, indirectly perhaps, to put out us characters . . . to kick out his cousins...