Word: loans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second meeting in a row, the Student Council found itself plagued by indecision as it engaged in intricate parliamentary maneuvers, and finally adjourned after three and a half hours, passing a motion for an activity loan fund by one vote and approving the constitution of the Motorscooter Club...
...rivers and harbors bill, by urging Congress to "reject new projects not approved by the Board of Engineers," to provide for "more local participation in approved projects,?' and to "withhold authorization and construction of all but urgently needed projects." He asked Congress to "establish interest rates for Government loan programs that will induce private funds to participate in their financing." He plugged for postal-rate increases and argued for user charges (levied against plane operators) on federal airway facilities...
...prop up the slipping Argentine peso (now down to 40 to the dollar at the free rate). Aramburu last week got a $75 million loan from the International Monetary Fund. To draw the dollars. Argentina must post an equivalent sum in pesos (figured at the official rate of 18 to the dollar) and within three to five years must repurchase the pesos with dollars at the same ratio...
...collection of 185 paintings and 220 prints, on loan from 75 museums and private collectors, combines a sense of the history and the quality oof American art. The exhibit ranges from the earliest beginnings, with reproductions of 16th century prints done by post-Columbian explorers, to recent abstract paintings, and includes some of Gilbert Stuart's famed portraits of Washington, an engraving by Paul Revere of the Boston Massacre, works by Benjamin West, Washington Allston, Whistler, Sargent, Homer, Eakins and Ryder. What the exhibition plainly shows is that a new school of painting sprang...
Another plan which the scholarship committee will consider is a short-term loan fund for extracurricular activities. This was suggested by Carl S. Sloane '58 to avoid ending the meeting on "a farcical note" and to remedy the fact that "we've done nothing to aid the student body since February...