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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 350 Volunteers Will Work on Combined Charities Campaign | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $100,00 Given To Cancer Study | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $100,00 Given To Cancer Study | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: The Stiff Arm | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENT: Trio | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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