Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bank salesmanship is also transforming the industry's old-fashioned marble mausoleums into modern buildings of shimmering glass, bright aluminum and soft background music, creating an inviting atmosphere that increases business. To call attention to itself, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society has even gone so far as to deck out its tellers and passbooks in gaudy Duncan plaid. Result: there were 2,200 new accounts in the first few months...
...week. In a quiet, unpublicized meeting held under the stern eyes of their London underwriters, the owners of the Stockholm and Andrea Doria reached an out-of-court settlement that 1) ended their attempts to fix the blame on each other, and 2) made it possible to establish a fund for payment of third-party claims, e.g., claims by passengers and shippers for injury and loss of life and property...
...announcement of the new House should give great impetus to the "Program"--a giant $85 million fund drive, outlined by Pusey on Nov. 1 in a report to the Overseers...
...French demanded that the proposed Common Market investment fund contribute development capital to French colonies-something which the Germans felt would discredit the organization in the eyes of the Afro-Asian nations (this one is still not settled). The Italians wanted the investment fund to concentrate on underdeveloped areas of Europe, specifically the Mezzogiorno, or Italian South...
...deadline drew near last week, Edwards won his point. The city commissioners agreed to a budget of $7,237,861, $1,234,143 below the proposed 1957 figure. To do it, the city slashed the $2,000 Memorial Day Parade Fund to $500, dropped plans to raise the pay of its 1,084 city employees, ordered policemen and firemen to buy their own uniforms, decided not to fill vacancies in many city jobs, ^ and fired 44 municipal employees. The first to go: the mayor's brother, City Bus Supervisor James DiDomenico...