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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...costs, had little trouble getting materials by his cash-on-the-line policy. Like most builders he formed a new corporation for each project, dissolved it when the project was finished. Thus his fat profits were taxable at only 25% as capital gains, gave him plenty of capital to expand. In all, he invested some $900,000 in his wartime projects, made another...
...Expenses for such items as Counsellor for Veterans, Infirmary, and even Nursery School will be swollen in the ensuing months, he warned, remarking that the University despite its great resources, remains dependent on gifts every year to carry through its normal program and at the same time plan and expand for the future...
...ultimate aim of the plan, for months secretly abrewing among Rockefeller's high-powered brain-trusters: by mixing business (which would be handled by a special corporation) and philanthropy, to expand other countries' production, especially of food, and thus to increase their capacity to buy what the U.S. has to sell. If it worked in Brazil, where Rockefeller proposed to begin in a relatively small way, living standards would be raised, an extensive middle class would come into existence, and there would be an end to talk of U.S. and exploitation...
Actually, though Rockefeller intended to spend more than $20,000,000 on worldwide schemes, his Brazilian beginnings were modest. Of three initial projects, one was philanthropic, two were commercial, with a total investment at first of around $750,000. For philanthropy he proposed to expand a pet wartime project of the Coordinator's Office that, in an effort to improve nutrition, taught starch-and-bean-fed Brazilians to eat salads, and "stimulated" farmers to start growing fresh vegetables...
...below zero, Fahrenheit. He breathed into the chamber and his breath condensed to fog. He made a magic pass with a single pellet of dry ice. The fog cleared, and glittering snowflakes drifted on to the chamber's floor. From this point it was easy to expand the process to full, outdoor scale...