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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short, Banker Istel found it perfectly logical that U.S. investors should buy bargains at home before looking across the seas. Not until the market rose to levels reflecting a truer value for stocks, and the chances for profits were thus lessened, could Americans be expected to start looking for more profitable enterprises abroad. In addition, said Istel, foreign investors face currency difficulties, "run the risk of not being able to repatriate [their] capital," for the chance of profits which are smaller than in the U.S. It was "not surprising" that since the end of the war, private international finance...
...face-to-face encounter, he hops the Atlantic without papers, fails in his mission when his socialite parents beg him to change his mind. But back in England 24 hours later, Jerry sees his WAAF and can't resist taking the plunge anyhow: "Patches, I've found you ... I love you . . . Will you marry me, Patches . . . please, dear Patches...
Depositor. In Great Falls, Mont., hospital attendants, after looking high & low for the rare type of blood needed to give Jacob Dirkes an emergency transfusion, found that the only pint available was the one that Dirkes had donated a few days before...
...Association has found it difficult, however, to collaborate with other national student groups. "Since our country is still under some control," the Association reports, "our program is obliged to be limited to a small scale so far as international activities are concerned. We have held twice a Japanese American Student Conference since the War, but the delegation of American side was to be from the occupation personnels...
...bulging bank roll, proceeded to Yale University. (Some stories say it was Harvard, others both Harvard and Yale.) That dignified institution turned down the "tainted" money, feeling that it could not build a university with money gouged from California formers by a railroad monopoly. "Very well, I'll found a university of my own," said the good Senator, and so he did. Far too modest to name his institution after himself, he named it after his son, Laland Stanford...