Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than 94 tests-for aptitude in the arts and sciences, for handling and comprehension of words, even for physical strength and "fancifulness." In all but the last two, Psychologist Spearman found the scores affected by a general factor which he called G. This G appeared to be an innate fund of mental energy, a sort of all-around cerebral handyman at the service of special endeavors and special abilities. Thus a person's proficiency at poker, for example, is the result of his G supply plus his special talent for poker. This becomes a simple equation...
...other for stockholders. For his stockholders Mr. Hutton merely amplified in simple terms the usual statement. Sample item: "Cash (Needed to pay for raw materials and to meet payrolls amounting to approximately $1,000,000 monthly, taxes averaging $383,000 monthly, insurance, including contributions by employes to annuity fund, averaging $100,000 monthly...
...Last week a special Senate subcommittee investigating the price-pegging cotton and wheat operations of the late Federal Farm Board disclosed a loss of $344,000,000 (69%) of its $500,000,000 revolving fund in trying to buck the law of supply & demand...
...Kentucky Prize was made possible by a grant from the Jessie Preston will be given annually while the Iowa prize, from money of the Charles Eliott Perkins Scholarship Fund will be awarded in alternate years...
George H. Earle 3rd, rich Philadelphia socialite, contributed handsomely to his friend Franklin Roosevelt's fund in 1932. Next year he sailed off to be Minister to Austria. Last year Minister Earle resigned his post to run for Governor of Pennsylvania. Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle Jr., rich Philadelphia socialite, contributed handsomely to his friend George Earle's campaign fund. One evening last week after a farewell dinner on the Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel "Tony" Biddle gratefully gripped Governor Earle's hand.* sailed off to be Minister to Norway (TIME, July...