Word: funds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Lewis* seemed in less vengeful mood. From what leaked out about his starting demands on the private operators, they were, as usual, stupendous: a five-day, 40-hour week, at the same pay as for the present 54-hour week; doubling of the 5?: royalty for his welfare fund on each ton of coal mined; inclusion of supervisors in his contract. But for the first time since 1943 he had agreed to separate sessions with Northern and Southern operators. Mineworkers headquarters henchmen were already talking confidently of an agreement by June 15-if not before...
Last week a faltering step was taken to ease the shortage. The International Monetary Fund, which was set up to help members meet "temporary disequilibriums" in their international payments, had its first customers. The severe European winter had forced France to import large amounts of U.S. wheat, with a consequent drain on its supply of dollars. France got $25 million by paying francs to the fund. The Netherlands, also short of foreign exchange, put up guilders for $6 million...
...from Amesbury, Massachusetts, received the Kelleher Memorial Scholarship, awarded for the first time in the memory of a Marine Corns capitan who was killed in action on Tinian. The Kelleher fund is included in the National Scholarship program...
...graduate students, John M. Naff, Jr. 31, and Harold W. Smith '45LG, have been awarded Henry Fellowships for study in England during the coming year, the American Trustees of the Charles and Julia Henry Fund announced yesterday. The awards amount to 600 pounds...
...Charles and Julia Henry Fund Fellowships were established by the bequest of Lady Julia Lewisohn Henry "in the earnest hope and desire of cementing the bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States." They were first awarded...