Word: funds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the minute steak and the strawberry sundae, Harry Truman got up to say a few words. He was in a mellow and reminiscent mood. He joked about his old Army days with Eddie, recalling how as Canteen managers they had reaped profits for their artillery battery fund by selling $3 sweaters for $6. A handful of scribbling reporters dropped their pencils and took it easy. They picked them up when Harry Truman abruptly left Eddie and the Army, and began to talk about the worries of the world...
...FUND and W.H.O...
...when Petrillo charged that canned music from jukeboxes and radio stations was threatening the livelihood of his musicians. He then invoked the ban. But he will do little better now. Record makers will pay royalties of between 1% and 2½% a record into the musicians' welfare fund, about the same as before. Estimated royalties: $2,000,000 a year. The peace pact was tentatively drawn two months ago. It was held up to make sure that it did not violate the Taft-Hartley Act, which bans the paying of royalties into union-controlled welfare funds. The solution, approved...
...longhairs around him, Petrillo clapped Sarnoff on the back and cried, "We are the proletariat." Everyone was in high spirits; both the record companies and Petrillo were, happy that they had found a way around the law, so that Petrillo could once again fatten his union's welfare fund with record royalties (TIME...
...Christmas List. He couldn't make his big Gift as an alumnus, but if he kept forgetting to hand in study cards on time . . . Vag wrote "Merry Christmas" across the top of his card; to it he pinned a check. "Pay to the order of the Vagabond Fund for Forgetful Students," it said, "Ten Dollars...