Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...familiar sight in Radcliffe's Moors Hall this week is Mrs. Henry F. Pringle, of Washington, D.C. Mrs. Pringle is living at Moors while writing a series of pamphlets about the various aspects of the college for publicity of the Radcliffe Development Fund...
...Harvard Liberal Union has collected $185 in its fund-raising drive to aid the recently bombed high school in Clinton, Tenn., Roger C. Algase '59, HLU president, announced yesterday...
...only for one week, and to serve only those who wore the magic silver lotus lapel badge. Those who wore it were the 1,000-odd delegates and guests at the 13th annual meeting of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), gathered in the air-conditioned comfort of Delhi's modern House of Science...
...Bearing a letter from President Eisenhower urging help to the impoverished giants of all continents, U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson proposed that member countries increase their contributions to both the World Bank, which lends money to its members at regular bankers' rates, and to the IMF, whose funds are available to shore up sagging national currencies in an emergency. Backing Ike's suggestions, the boards of governors of both Bank and Fund agreed unanimously to boost the contributions of all members. There was talk of doubling the Bank's $9.4 billion capitalization (increasing the U.S. contribution...
...contributed by an employee (up to 6% of his earnings), G.E. offered to contribute 50?, invest the money in G.E. stock or U.S. savings bonds. G.E. computed that a worker making $5,000 per year would have as much as $5,281 worth of bonds in his savings fund after ten years. The plan got nowhere with high-voltage Jim Carey, who last January called the recession an obvious union-busting plot. He charged that the plan is a scheme to drive up the price of G.E. stock, enriching top executives who "have secured stock free of charge as part...