Word: pension
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Netherlands, SS Brigadier General Wilhelm Harster. Harster had served eight years as a war criminal in Holland after the war, apparently no hindrance to his employment by the Bavarian Interior Ministry as a legal consultant. Last week Harster was dismissed from his post in Munich-with a pension, of course...
...Waring's false colors. His reported death causes the commission of a quick biography. This reveals that Waring's books on Ceylon, Tibet, Spain, etc., have been largely lifted from forgotten, out-of-print books by genuine travelers. He had never been anywhere farther flung than a pension on the French Riviera. His name was sometimes Robinson, but as a last resort, Pimley. Then it transpires that even his death was phony. He is very much alive, a slightly hangdog young minor spiv and con man who has happily dropped the burdens of authorship in favor of marriage...
...than in any other industrialized nation in the world. Gordon hopes gradually to shift the emphasis from direct investment to bond capital, such as developed a U.S. industry largely free from overseas control. Pearson made a campaign pledge to establish a national development corporation that would draw capital from pension and insurance funds and individuals, and have as its eventual goal "buying back Canadian resources and Canadian companies." Gordon quickly adds: "We must deal fairly with people who have invested their money in Canada in all good faith and with full encouragement...
...sent out meticulously intimate questionnaires to 360 trading specialists and 600 member firms of the New York Stock Exchange. 800 members of regional exchanges. 2,000 companies whose stocks are traded over the counter. 5,000 broker-dealers who handle "unlisted" shares, and more than 1,000 pension funds, insurance companies and other publicly owned firms...
...most of these ventures. U.S. hotel chains invest little money themselves. Except for recent deals in The Netherlands and Rome, Hilton owns no share at all. Local governments provide funds or loans and tax incentives to investor syndicates that raise capital from such sources as Swiss banks, cautious pension funds, Texas oilmen and international millionaires. Investor appetites are whetted by such success stories as Intercontinental's Phoenicia Hotel in Beirut, which cost $9,500,000 when it went in business last year and is now valued at $20 million...