Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the Ford Foundation complained that U.S. higher education was not getting enough contributions from private sources, the annual survey of donations to 50 major colleges and universities by the John Price Jones Co., Inc., a Manhattan fund-raising firm, indicated that individuals and corporations gave a record $211,213,000 in 1965-66. Total donations which also included bequests and foundation grants, were down slightly from the previous year...
Instead, Karajan, who knows his way around a balance sheet as well as a musical score, plugged his festival into the free-spending electronic media. He recorded and released his version of Walküre before the festival performance, brought in a TV production firm-in which he is a major stockholder-to film the festival for worldwide distribution, and lined up more than 20 radio networks. These tie-ins enabled him to sign such top singers as Jon Vickers and Régine Crespin, and he even persuaded the Berlin senate to let the city's famed Philharmonic...
...late November, the Douglas board of directors knew that only a merger would save the firm. At Douglas' request, Stanley Osborne, a partner in the Wall Street investment banking house of Lazard Frères, began shopping for bids. Well-heeled McDonnell Co. offered the most cash?an immediate $69 million for authorized but unissued Douglas stock. It had already snapped up 300,000 shares of Douglas stock at depressed prices, a move that made it Douglas' largest stockholder...
...financed by the SS-slipped fugitives out of Europe after the war. One who did not go far was Erich Rajakowitsch, who in 1942 headed Eichmann's Section IV B4 ("death transports") in Holland: Wiesenthal finally found "Raja" in Italy, where he was heading a firm that traded profitably in oil pipelines and engines with the East bloc. Sentenced in Vienna to 2½ years, Raja was quietly released six months later...
...tales in Tales of Manhattan are based on events in the firm of Arnold & Degener, 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza. The fictional partnership that handles this work could be called Maupassant, Maugham, Cozzens & Auchincloss. This firm is choosy about cases; any messy divorce work is discreetly referred to O'Hara, O'Hara, O'Hara & O'Hara, 10 North Frederick Street, Gibbsville...