Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week the U.S. had received a request from Britain for a waiver of payment of some $81 million of interest due this month on past U.S. loans. There was every indication that Congress will, after some protest, grant the request. The U.S. was ready to provide the International Monetary Fund with approximately $500 million in cash. There is also talk in Washington that the U.S. Export-Import Bank might be ready to advance perhaps $200 million in loans to finance purchases of Western Hemisphere...
...ability to do so, Macmillan soberly outlined a series of measures by which he could almost double the nation's liquid dollar reserves. In case of urgent necessity, Britain could withdraw as much as $561 million of the $1.3 billion she had subscribed to the International Monetary Fund, and permission to make such withdrawals had already been requested. "Secondly," said the chancellor, "Her Majesty's Government own U.S. dollar securities to the value of between $750 million and $1 billion ... I am assured that, if requested, support in the form of a loan against these holdings will...
Disgrace did not last long. The year 1927 was a yeasty period; the public was crazy about aviation. Almost at once the Swede rejected by the Weather Bureau was picked up by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics and sent to California to establish the first airway weather reporting system...
...program, as outlined by Joseph T. Walker, Jr. of New York City, Chairman of the Radcliffe Development Fund, includes $2,400,000 for restricted endowments, $3,750,000 for unrestricted endowments and $3,850,000 for buildings...
Like the University's three-year fund-raising drive for 75 to 100 million dollars, Radcliffe's longer-range program will attempt to meet scholarship, building and endowment needs...