Word: invest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since 1918, the award of this office, which carries the title of Right Reverend Monsignor, was made for outstanding and conspicuous service to the country as well as to the Church. Upon his return from the war zone, Archbishop Francis Spellman, head Catholic Chaplain of the U. S., will invest the Colonel with his new robes of office...
Alarmed by this breach of the Union's rigid taboos, Parliament stood ready to forbid further property acquisitions by non-whites in Natal. Behind the measure stood hardheaded, international-minded Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts. Said he: Durban must remain a "white city," rich Indians should invest in war loans...
...records for long-distance flying, once remarked: "I don't want to be one of those generals who die in bed." His choice for the command of U.S. forces mobilizing in Egypt indicated the strategic conception of the operations last week. The U.S. and Britain were determined to invest the whole African coast for offense...
...okayed a wage boost for 400 employes in 13 St. Louis machine shops, then ordered all workers earning over $1 an hour to invest "at least 10%" of their pay in war bonds. This is not as revolutionary as it sounds: both labor and management had agreed to the scheme. But it may set a precedent for "voluntary" forced savings, and it may give unions a lever to pry wages still higher on the ground that the raise would buy war bonds, hence would not be inflationary...
Churches and charitable institutions, the Treasury Department has announced, may invest up to $100,000 a year in war bonds instead of the mere $50,000 permitted other organizations. But not before July...