Word: fund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operation. Next time the Treasury cupboard was bare M. Auriol borrowed eight billion francs (TIME, March 22). Last week government economists figured that another 20 billion francs will have to be found by the Treasury this year. It was believed in Paris that the Cabinet's exchange equalization fund had been almost exhausted, and only friendly support from Washington and London kept the franc from slipping. After almost a year of Popular Front rule the Blum Cabinet found itself still unable to agree what basically should be done when it met one morning last week in emergency session...
...ever devised. Ordinary cornstalks, ground to powder, can be used as a furnace fuel, like powdered coal. The Cabot researchers will try to develop bigger, more vigorous and faster-growing trees by artificial pollination and juggling of chromosomes (heredity elements in the germ cells). After 50 years the fund, if any of it is left, may be used for any purpose Harvard designates...
Such a sentiment finds itself in print in the Decennial Report just published by this one of the last of the Inflation Classes. In addition to life blanks and a statement of the class's status with regard to the Harvard Fund, principal interest of the book centers round a questionnaire of 69 questions. Adding up the answers Joseph C. Furnas '27 then comes out with the lead article, "Was It Worth While" and produces the conclusion first quoted...
Towards the Harvard Fund the Class has to date totaled $26,888.12. The total number of contributors who have given at one time or author is 488 or 567 of the Class. Of this record the comment runs that "As compared with that of other classes it is good...
...Bliss Fund and Blodgett Scholarship to Russell J. Lutz, of Belmont...