Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three days after it had marched up the hill to spear the President's request for authorization of a long-term foreign-aid development fund, the House Foreign Affairs Committee did an abrupt about-face last week, marched back down again to approve the bill...
...second of Tuesday morning's sessions, Burton Fowler, Consultant to the Fund for the Advancement of Education, struck a similar note when he discussed "The Human Side of Education...
...just as the Administration was basking in this new after-the-battle calm, an ominous cloud of another color scooted across the horizon. Heart of the Eisenhower foreign policy is the foreign aid bill that sets up a long-term economic Development Loan Fund for providing loans to underdeveloped countries. Last month the Senate voted resounding endorsement (57-25) for the plan. Last week the House Foreign Affairs Committee turned thumbs down on the Administration request, insisted on sticking with the year-to-year tradition, and recommended a $400 million slash below the $3.6 billion the Senate had authorized...
...year in Greece, King Paul and his pert, social-minded Queen Frederika have worked out a new kind of welfare-state benefit: dowries for all. Urged on by the King and Queen, 132 citizens' committees all over Greece have conducted drives to raise money for a national dowry fund. Each time 1,000 drachmas ($33.33) is added to the collection, a bank book is issued in the name of some future bride, selected at the age of one to three years by the committee from the poorest families in the village. With compound interest, by the time a girl...
...MUTUAL FUND SHARES will be sold by agents of a major life-insurance company for the first time. In Eastern, Midwestern and Southern U.S., salesmen of Ohio's Nationwide insurance companies will offer, in addition to their fixed-income policies, stock in Nation-wide's Mutual Income Foundation, an open-end investment trust, whose payments fluctuate along with cost of living...