Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Kenneth B. Keating, master of well-turned satire, is not likely to be one of them. His aim (with his own term going on through 1964) is to get some fun out of it-particularly at the Democrats' expense. Last week, in a speech before a Republican fund-raising dinner in Danbury, Conn., Republican Keating reviewed "the Democratic Astronautical Missile Program, familiarly known to those of us in the scientific world as DAMP," offered his own tongue-in-cheek countdown on the five leading Democratic candidates for the presidential nomination. Keating's guided missiles...
...million. But the booming coffee sales are bringing unexpected millions, and last week, by conservative reckoning, the 1959 deficit promised to be $200 million or less; Kubitschek & Co. even talk of a surplus. Turned down three months ago when he applied for approval from the International Monetary Fund for a $300 million bailout, Kubitschek says: "Loans? We don't need loans...
...March of 1957 SUPRAD received an initial grant of $200,000 from the Fund for the Advancement of Education, a part of the Ford Foundation. Soon thereafter the educators began planning the series of experiments and demonstrations, most of which are now well under...
...land-grant college? Massachusetts has gained a certain notoriety for the inordinate amount of academic control held by the state legislature. For example, the University of Massachusetts cannot keep any fees paid to it--tuition, board charges, room rents--but must turn the money over to the General Fund of the Commonwealth...
...League of Nations economics consultant, trying to make the economies of eastern Europe work. After two years in business in Sweden, he returned to Basel in 1931 as head economist for the Bank of International Settlements, from which he was chosen to head the Fund...