Word: nonprofit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thank you for publishing . . . the remarks of Dimitri Mitropoulos about the need for newer kinds of support for symphony orchestras [TIME, Jan. 8]...I heartily advocate...the exemption of the nonprofit orchestras from the federal 20% admissions...
...sent him to Europe to supervise the rebuilding of German industry and the housing of some 4,000,000 homeless Germans. He did a bang-up job, and the Government sent him to Japan on a similar task. Later he became president of Overseas Consultants Inc., an eleven-firm, nonprofit combine which mapped out a $650 million development program for Iran (TIME...
Britain's newspaper publishers, already cramped by a newsprint shortage and soaring prices, caught another body blow. The Newsprint Supply Co. Ltd., the nonprofit cooperative through which the publishers allocate their newsprint supplies, announced last week that paper was so short that the wartime rationing system would have to be reimposed. Under it, the use of newsprint will be limited to the level of 1950's first nine months, thus force every paper either to freeze its circulation or to cut its size, already down to six or at most eight pages...
...some industrialists, the first objective is to improve Social Security. Under a bill passed by the House and revised by the Senate Finance Committee, coverage would be extended to another 9,500,000 U.S. workers, including domestics, state and local government workers (on a voluntary basis), employees of nonprofit enterprises and the self-employed (except for ten categories ranging from doctors and lawyers to publishers and engineers). Still excluded: 7,900,000 farmers and farmhands. The new bill would double the present benefits, boosting the average individual payment to about $50 a month and setting a family maximum...
...Because of these two events, although we are a nonprofit organization with little money to spend on advertising, we decided, in fear and trembling, to take an advertisement in TIME for $4,070. We had never spent even half that sum on a single advertisement, but we reasoned that if TIME readers were such generous people the ad could not do otherwise than...