Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area members' plaintive citation of Russian aid to Syria and Egypt, Dulles promised that the U.S. Development Loan Fund would consider favorably any application for loans. Then, to the members' pleased surprise, Dulles promised that the U.S. would put up an additional $10 million to complete the telecommunications net linking the pact capitals, which was launched with $8,600,000 contributed by the U.S. last year...
...credit package made available to France $250 million from the European Payments Union and $131 million from its quota in the International Monetary Fund, enabled it to defer payments on $186 million owed to the U.S. and the Export-Import Bank during the next three years, and to pay the U.S. in francs for $88 million worth of military supplies and surplus cotton...
...Korean metalworks, Chinese bronzes. He made frequent trips to the Orient, bought only the best. In 1904 he offered his whole collection to the Government with two conditions: that the Smithsonian Institution would manage it and that he could keep it until his death. He set up a trust fund to expand the Oriental collections (he prohibited expanding his American art), then gave another $1,000,000 for a Freer Gallery building. He died 18 months before the building was completed...
...burn of his own over such Democratic slants as Harry Truman's remark that Eisenhower was a good general when he had someone else (i.e., Harry Truman) to tell him what to do (TIME, Jan. 20). Thus, when Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn asked Adams to deliver a fund-raising speech in Minneapolis, the President's Chief of Staff sharpened his pencil and began scribbling. Result: along with Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, who swiped at the Democrats in Detroit, he got more newspaper space than the President of the U.S. or the rest...
...week's end uneasy U.A.W. delegates, after approving the Reuther demands, voted to increase strike assessments for March, April and May from $3 to $5 a man, toward raising the $24 million strike fund to $50 million. They hopefully added a feature Reuther had not asked for: in case a strike does not come off, the extra assessments will be refunded. Though there were optimists who believed that under cover of his distinctly inflationary profit-sharing plan Reuther would be able to bring home some more good old-fashioned inflationary pay raises. Detroit generally believed that, with the auto...