Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grant of $390,000 has been allocated to the University by the Eugene Higgins Scientific Trust, trustees of the fund announced in New York City yesterday. The total grant of more than $1.5 million will be divided equally among Columbia, Yale, Princeton and Harvard...
...Harvard Medical Center fund drive has received more than $8.5 million in gifts and pledges, William M. Rand '09, chairman of the program, announced yesterday. The funds received so far represent approximately 15 per cent of the $58 million goal set for the program...
Rand predicted that a library for the Medical School, the first objective of the fund drive, would be started by 1960. "There is no other area in the University where the quality of the department is so far above the quality of the library," he commented...
...program would be completed "well within ten years." The amount to be raised is not definite, he added, since the goal is based on the needs of the Medical Center. Whenever a contribution is made to one of the seven hospitals which comprise the Center rather than to the fund, the goal for the drive is lowered...
...Congress this week by the Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, headed by Florida's George Smathers. It advocated almost all the requests for changes made by railroad presidents at the hearings in January (TIME, Jan. 27). The Smathers committee wants to: ¶Set up a guaranteed loan fund to be used for a variety of projects. Increase payments to the railroads for carrying the mail...