Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Edmonton people cheerfully credit the construction of the new city hall to the financial acumen and persuasiveness of Mayor Hawrelak. Inheriting a $1,500,000 building fund when he took office five years ago, he fattened it from such civic windfalls as the $647,000 plum gained from a favorable turn of the exchange rate on borrowed U.S. dollars. By the time Hawrelak persuaded his fellow citizens to forgo other desperately needed civic improvements to start the city hall, he had the cash in sight...
...Harvard Freedom Council has secured both the support of the Freshman Union Committee, and F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, Dean of Freshmen, in its prospective fund-raising drive to help finance future Hungarian scholarship students at the University...
Among other things, Brewster told the special Senate committee investigating improper labor and industry activities he owes around $42,000 to George Newell of Seattle, who makes some $300,000 a year in brokerage fees on the union's health and welfare fund. The debt developed out of a racing stable partnership, now dissolved...
...rather unusual requirements that Hollis established for his fund have perplexed the Scholarship Committee...
...committee has resolved the problem of determining the value of ten 1722 English pounds in 1957 American dollars by dividing the income of the fund into ten equal parts...