Word: huntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professors recently joined in praising plans for the revolutionary "dream college" to be erected in western Massachusetts. Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, and Herold C. Hunt, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, both hailed the new institution as an important development in American education...
...experimentation in education," Hunt asserted, commenting on the new college's no-lecture system. "The testing of other and new means of schooling is the greatest contribution America is able to make to the science of education...
...what one vet calls a "bonus in advance," the most lavish assistance program in history (total Veterans Administration spending since 1946: $72 billion). Most important, the aid was given when and where it could help a man re-enter competitive society. U.S. Employment Service set up a nationwide job hunt. The VA guaranteed $50 billion worth of low-interest loans to help buy 5,700,000 homes, 73,000 farms, 237,000 small businesses. Riding a gravy train, 8,500,000 joined the "52-20 Club," by 1949 spent up to 52 weeks (average: 19) drawing $20 a week...
...rise from $345 to $395 in the over-the-counter market when the merger news was announced (one share of Morgan for 4.4 of Morgan Guaranty). Under able Chairman Alexander, the bank has made no bones about its competitiveness, trains young men nicknamed "bird dogs" to go out and hunt for business. For the Guaranty Trust, one of the impelling reasons for the merger was to get Morgan's bright young executives...
...Wang Chi-yang, Flower Drum Song's venerable elder, likes the feel of money and distrusts outside financial institutions, so do Rodgers and Hammerstein. Where other producers more often than not must hunt down angels, R. & H. have the problem of fighting off outside investors, mostly use their own capital or that of family members and close friends. And they go about their business with Confucian calm; voices are virtually never raised at an R. & H. rehearsal, except in song...