Word: funding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debt. The Italian debt to the U. S. with accrued interest amounts in round figures to $2,138,000,000. If they were to fund this on a 62 year basis according to the "standard" terms of the U. S.-British agreement, the annual payments would be about...
...million acres of land may or may not be a gift of immense value to an educational endowment fund. A few years ago officials of the University of Texas thought that it was not worth so overwhelmingly much. The land, mostly in western Texas, was about to be sold for a song-almost any song. Then suddenly an enterprising alumnus suggested that the property might contain oil; events have proved that it does. Texan newspapers are already headlining UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RICHEST IN WORLD...
...announced last night that the fund which is being raised to pay for a band at tomorrow's game has nearly reached the needed proportions and is expected to do so today. The First Corps Cadet band has been hired to play, and will lead the Freshman parade to the Stadium tomorrow...
...excellent performance of "The Rivals" was cast into eclipse by the elaborate ceremony of dedication. There were times when the atmosphere became oppressively like that of high school graduation exercises. At the close of the first act J. Weston Allen of the Board of Trustees for the Jewell Repertory Fund, Inc., appeared before the curtain and described in a deep and sonorous monotone the achievements and aspirations of the Repertory Theatre. Then His Honor, the Governor, was introduced from one box, and His Honor, the Corporation Counsel of Boston, from the other, and the two eminent gentlemen rivalled each other...
...summer workmen have hammered, walls have risen, grass has sprouted in Baltimore where the Wilmer Institute - greatest eye-research laboratory in the world- was being erected, equipped. Last week it was finished. Its fund- begun by Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root in gratitude to Dr. William Holland Wilmer, who saved her sight (TIME, Feb. 23)-is now $3,000,000. Dr. Wilmer is in complete charge. Rich and poor may go there for healing and only the rich will...