Word: funds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...payer doesn't help, private educational institutions will go down. We receive heart-rending pleas for money from conscientious people who want to help war-torn people and home-less children whose homes we have helped to destroy, and in the same mail requests for gifts to the Harvard Fund to keep the University going. Then Harvard bows, pushes a $10,000 chair under our bottom and says, "Pray, make yourself comfortable...
...simple 10?-an-hour plan proposed by President Truman's fact-finders and rejected by industry, the new formula required four typewritten pages of "simplified" explanation by the union. The steelworkers would pay some of their wages-2¼? an hour-into the insurance half of the fund, with Bethlehem chipping in another 2½? an hour for each worker. But the company would have to pay by itself the cost of a liberal pension plan, guaranteeing all 65-year-old steelworkers with 25 years of service minimum retirement pensions of $100 a month. Some would get more. This...
Right Speed, Right Time. Gustave Marquot considers himself un capitaliste éclairé (an enlightened capitalist). He has set up a profit-sharing plan, health insurance, a pension fund. To combat absenteeism, Marquot has instituted an "assiduity bonus"-each worker gets 150 francs for each two-week period in which he has not been absent from work. There is no union at Marquot's. About 100 of his 400 workers once belonged to the Communist-dominated C.G.T., but the union fell apart six months ago when the secretary found himself unable to collect dues. Workers' gripes...
...great of $12,083 was left to the College "to establish a scholarship fund to be known as the Helen H. White scholarship, the income of which is to be used in aid" of needy girls...
...present rate of return on investments, the scholarship fund, President Jordan explained, will yield a yearly income...