Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...permanent U.S. representative on the NATO Council with the rank of ambassador, replacing George W. Perkins, resigned. ¶Ordered, while weekending at Gettysburg, that the hurricane-blasted areas of Louisiana and Texas (see below) be made eligible for emergency financial aid from his $10 million disaster fund...
...Careful U.S. study of Kishi's plan for a U.S.-financed Southeast Asia Development Fund, which would draw its raw materials from the free Asian countries and its technicians and capital goods from Japan-a project which would make Japan the political and economic leader of free Asia...
Question of Principle. Connecticut's Republican Senator William A. Purtell went farther. Said he: "If this doctor must exact the last pound of flesh from the practice of his profession," citizens generally should raise a fund to pay the bill. "I am willing," added Purtell, "out of the outrage to my soul, to subscribe the first $50." But, said Dr. Kris, "it's not a question of money. It's a question of principle...
...trade-fair planners. But it was long in coming. From 1950 to December 1954, the Soviet bloc sent its lavish government exhibits to 133 trade fairs, the U.S. to none. Finally alarmed by the Red propaganda gains, President Eisenhower in 1954 drew $2,500,000 from his emergency fund to bankroll Department of Commerce participation at the fairs. But the U.S. is still hobbled by a shoestring budget. This year's appropriation for trade fairs is $3,600,000, less than some Communist countries invest in one big fair. Last year little Czechoslovakia took part in 77 fairs...
...following Thursday, July 25, Edward Bernstein, Director of The Research and Statistic Department of the International Monetary Fund, will speak on "The United Kingdom in the World Economy...