Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outside world have some inkling that affairs are not at their normal smoothness, and education in particular is not rolling in gold. We are warned by college presidents that if the tax payer doesn't help, private educational institutions will go down. We receive heart-rending pleas for money from conscientious people who want to help war-torn people and home-less children whose homes we have helped to destroy, and in the same mail requests for gifts to the Harvard Fund to keep the University going. Then Harvard bows, pushes a $10,000 chair under our bottom and says...
...this suggests, and here I am at the third level, that education is all a matter of money like everything else, war, scientific advance, even religion to a large extent. Given a good place to sit in (and a luxury super library to read in) anybody with the financial stuff can become an educated citizen...
...Chug-Chug, the cleanup man, Williams stayed in full public view while skirting the intricate web of Navy bureaucracy. He never drew a paycheck. He made enough money for shaving gear and an occasional movie by setting up pins in the bowling alley. Sometimes, he gave a helping hand to a buddy who worked in a supply center across from the base stacking goods...
...Deal down here. It's no deal at all," said he. He agreed with Sims that farmers should diversify their crops, but said that "cotton is all some of them can do. Some go into truck, but truck is high risk along with high profit. It takes money to switch from cotton...
...deliberately advised his stepson to refuse to register, he said, and had offered him money to skip to Canada or Mexico. The stepson disregarded the advice and on his 18th birthday registered. But 40-year-old Wirt Warren, a Unitarian and a Socialist who had been drafted as a conscientious objector in World War II, was plainly inviting the U.S. to make something of it anyway...