Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ECONOMIC FORECASTERS got a $2,750,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to investigate economic problems more fully-and thus perhaps improve their forecasts-via study professorships at California, Chicago, Columbia, Yale and Harvard universities...
...head the five-man mission to Moscow. For weeks, Pan Am brass has been huddling with Soviet diplomats in Washington, biting away at technical questions, e.g., maintenance facilities, fuel storage, radio navigation aids, passenger and baggage facilities. The Russians, who instigated the talks and appear willing to grant berthing privileges in other cities of the U.S.S.R., invited Pan Am to dispatch its top technicians to Moscow and settle other traffic problems on the spot...
Universal voices echo, too, for the Civil War was a universal war-Abraham Lincoln, man of anguish, defining the issue: "We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth"; Ulysses Grant, man of victory, summing up: "Our republican institutions were regarded as experiments up to the breaking out of the rebellion, and monarchical Europe generally believed that our republic was a rope of sand . . . Now it has shown itself capable of dealing with one of the greatest wars that was ever made, and our people have proven"themselves...
Because the money was raised "by methods possibly not conforming to conference rules," the University of Southern California was ordered to return to an unnamed donor a $25,000 "grant-in-aid" contribution. Letting ineligible students play in conference games cost the Trojans...
...MOSCOW, now serviced from West only by Finns and Scandinavians, is in prospect for Pan American World Airways. On Soviets' initiative, Pan Am is dickering with Russia, hopes to start service late this year. If Reds let in Pan Am, State Department and Civil Aeronautics Board will probably grant Russia's airline Aeroflot equal landing rights...