Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accepts. Dr. Perry will leave Exeter embarrassingly rich-with a $10 million endowment, 33 ,new buildings, most of them handsome Georgian brick, and a faculty that has almost tripled. Exonians credit Dr. Perry's fund-raising talent for the school's prosperity. And in fact the biggest gift ($5 million) came from the late oil millionaire, Edward S. Harkness, benefactor of Harvard and Yale, who was no Exonian-just a friend of Perry's. His other friends include hundreds of alumni and parents, students-who see less of him now than their predecessors did-and his grandchildren...
President Conant has announced the receipt of a $1,500,000 gift from Thomas W. Lamont '92, international financier, for the purpose of establishing a new undergraduate library. In its vote of acceptance, the Corporation announced that immediate steps would be taken to garner another $1,500,000, essential to the completion of the work...
...around to stores. To Manhattan buyers, he brought cheap full-page ads in obscure trade journals, promised them they would appear in the slick magazines. The stores bit, but slowly at first. He lost $5,000 the first year. Then came the war, and the boom in shipments of gift packages to G.I.'s overseas. By 1942, Alfred D. McKelvy Co. (trade name: Seaforth Toiletries for Men) grossed over $500,000, good enough so that Vick Chemical Co. paid McKelvy upwards of $500,000 in Vick stock for a controlling interest. Last year Seaforth grossed over...
...West Coast, the name player was Herman Wedemeyer (no kin to the General), Hawaii's gift to St. Mary's College. He is a 173-lb., triple-threat halfback who even knows how to block. So far his luster has been dimmed by the fact that St. Mary's has met only weak opposition. This week Wedemeyer gets his chance against Southern California...
...royal excursion to the Hejaz, King Ibn Saud finally put to use the C-47 transport plane which had come as a gift from Franklin Roosevelt...