Word: prospectuses
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...fortune. Dublin Paper Merchant Harvey Du Cros, father of three famed bicycle racers, needed only to see his sons beaten by a man on Dunlop tires before he set to work. He promptly organized a tire company, persuaded Dunlop to join him, and with classic forethought predicted in his prospectus: "The pneumatic tyre will be almost indispensable for ladies and persons with delicate nerves...
...original prospectus, TIME announced that RELIGION would be one of the regular news sections of the magazine. Said the prospectus: "Whether or not they find the subject intrinsically interesting, men recognize the necessity of keeping in touch with the religious life of the world, because, to the majority of Americans and to the vast majority of the population of the earth, religion is a matter of major importance...
Next week Stokes will pass a prospectus among more professors. He plans eventually to have the project brought up before the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "Right now we're looking for the most satisfactory program for both the professor and student. We've got no set plan, we just want to find something feasible," Stokes said last night...
...committee is drawing up a prospectus which will be submitted to each department involved. Department approval must then be okayed by the administrative Committee on Educational Policy...
...friend Henry Kaiser won $3,000,000 in judgments (TIME, July 16, 1951). Otis filed in bankruptcy, and Kaiser began hunting its assets like a sheriff waving the mortgage. But four months ago the U.S. Supreme Court let stand an appeals-court ruling that K-F's prospectus was fraudulent, thus Otis & Co. would have violated the law had it sold the stock. The judgments were vacated...