Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the evil tidings were borne to him in Hollywood, 61-year-old Walter flew into a Vesuvian rage. Elsa Maxwell, fumed he, is a "fat, sloppy, smelly [unmentionable]." What was worse, said he, she had jeopardized his pet project, the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund: "Letters have been pouring in from people saying, 'We're not going to give any money to the fund because we hear on the Paar show that you are un-American!'" Winchell announced plans to enrich the Runyon Fund by $24 million by suing all twelve of Paar's sponsors...
U.A.W. SALARY CUTS are on way to offset current $200,000 monthly deficit caused by auto layoffs. Salaries of President Walter Reuther ($22,000) and 24 other executives will be slashed 10% ; some 100 staffers will be laid off. Big worry: U.A.W. now has $24 million in strike fund, far short of $50 million goal set for early June, when auto contracts will have expired...
...raise money for a retired nurses' fund, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan opened up his Sussex home to the public for one day, gathered more than $500 for the charity from some 2,000 who paid admissions, sipped soft drinks, gawked at the handsome gardens. In his best country-gentleman manner, the Prime Minister posed on the steps of Birch Grove House with wife Lady Dorothy and six blooming grandchildren: Anne Faber, 13, Alexander Macmillan, 14, Adam Macmillan, 10, Mark Faber, 7, Michael Faber, 12, and Joshua Macmillan...
Jones: A lot of businessmen and economists think so. The Committee for Economic Development and the National Planning Association have come out for a tax cut, and so has the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. So, for that matter, has Harry Truman...
...days that have elapsed since Harvard's Day, the Program has received $1,622,707, averaging less than $80,000 per day. Earlier, the fund was receiving donations at an average of about...