Word: granting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McGrath's proposal, which has been prepared for Federal legislation by the office of education, calls for a $600 a year grant for undergraduates and $1000 for graduate students, scaled upward for those with dependents...
...grant of $10,000 for the project has been provided by the Merrill Foundation for Advancement of Financial Knowledge. This will pay for exploratory research and studies in the coming year, Dean Mason said, adding that a four or five year program is contemplated if the initial studies prove fruitful...
Russia entrusted the guidance of the East German Republic yesterday to a tight-slipped diplomat who pulled the strings for the Communist coup in Hungary after the war. Naming Gregori M. Pushkin chief of its diplomatic mission, the Soviet Union became the first power in the world to grant legal recognition to the nine day old state...
...surviving soldiers of the Confederate Army tramped into Little Rock, Ark. last week for their 59th annual reunion, chortled in high glee over a new explanation for the surrender at Appomattox. The story: that General Robert E. Lee handed his sword and hat to General U.S. Grant because he took him to be the doorman. Then, with a sidelong glance at the last survivors of the G.A.R., who had held their last encampment four weeks ago, they decided to keep meeting each year "as long as there are two of us able to meet...
...days later the stock bounced up again to 4 3/8. At week's end RFC let out some news which might explain the rise. K-F had been dickering for a $30 million . loan since May, and if "all requirements are met" the RFC might be disposed to grant it. Detroit buzzed with rumors that Kaiser would use such a loan to retool for his long-promised, light low-priced car to compete with Chevrolet Ford and Plymouth...