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When the Student Council opens its Combined Charities drive on Monday, it will have the largest active working force in recent college history...
...largest gift "for immediate use" to the University since the Carnegie Corporation gave $125,000 to the Russian Research Center last summer, it brings to $149,983.48 the sum donated by the society in the last six months...
...this period the Department of Public Health has come up with the largest share, $21,826.78. The Department of Biology has received $7,721.31, Biochemistry $3,738.44, and Medicine...
With such genteel stiff-arming of the buyer, white-haired Hiram Parke, 76, who looks more like a bank president than an auctioneer, has pleased most of the sellers who have come to him.* In eleven years he has built Parke-Bernet (rhymes with "in debt") into the largest U.S. auction house, lured buyers from as far away as Europe and South America, and sold more than $50 million worth of paintings, books, furniture, tapestries, etc. At commissions ranging from 10% (plus expenses) up to 20%, he has always shown a tidy profit (last year's take: about...
When Railroad Juggler Robert R. Young started to unload his Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad stock early this year, a Chicago trio began to buy up his holdings. By last week, Young was out and the trio had gobbled up 25% of Rock Island stock, one of the largest single holdings of any major railroad...