Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gratifying to note that TIME [Aug. 20] carried a report on the recent statements by the president of Dartmouth College in support of the quota system there - particularly since most of the press completely ignored the story...
With the murders came a rash of rumors, cranks and pranks. A note pinned up in a public lavatory boasted about the murders over the signature, "Slasher Evans." A young Detroit girl received a phone call threatening her life. One fearful insomniac sought police protection because he heard mysterious noises in the night. Every prostrate drunk brought forth a murder rumor. Mystic-minded citizens noted that all the murders had occurred under a full moon...
...year 4% first mortgage of $69.5 million ($58 million for the marked-down value of the property, plus '$11.5 million which RFC offered to lend Kaiser for additions to Fontana); 2) a 25-year, no-interest second mortgage of $34.5 million; 3) a $10.3 million note to be secured by 103,180 shares of Kaiser Co. Inc. 4% first preferred stock. In short, RFC wanted its original loan repaid in full, 'was not prepared to subsidize Kaiser's well-publicized campaign to deliver cheap steel to West Coast industries...
Admiral William F. Halsey introduced a wry note of sportsmanship in an order issued to the Third Fleet: "Cease firing, but if you see any enemy planes in the air, shoot them down in friendly fashion...
...debt: 1) Britain should ask that a portion (20-25%) of each debt be forgiven-because Britain often had to buy at grossly inflated foreign prices; 2) Britain should then agree to pay an equivalent amount of the debt immediately, and in cash; 3) Britain should give her note for the remaining...