Word: share
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Urged finance ministers of International Monetary Fund nations, meeting in Washington, to share newly accumulated national wealth with economically backward countries...
...most promising graduates that year was a bright, good-looking young Oregonian named Alfred Lot Beatie. But Lieut. Beatie was not destined to share in his classmates' future. Five months after his graduation, he fell out of formation, crashed his plane into a ditch at Kelly Field, was so badly injured that he was first taken to a local morgue. Both legs were crushed, his skull fractured. After nearly a year in a San Antonio hospital, Beatie was still so badly crippled that he was forced to retire from the Army...
...Spot of Cash." In time, he set up headquarters in Zurich, where an auburn-haired beauty-shop owner named Trudi Sommer, 29. was only too happy to have him share her apartment. She thought he was a Canadian test pilot named Johnny Bird. Then, one night last January, for reasons he was never quite able to explain, Hume wandered off to a church, where he drank up all the communion wine. Next morning, armed with a pistol, he turned up at a small branch of Zurich's Gewerbebank to help himself to "a spot of cash...
Prescriptions & Precedents. The judge's own prescription is much easier to swallow. Voting rights for some 43 million shares of G.M. stock held by the Du Pont company would pass to Du Pont shareholders on a pro rata basis (about 1⅓G.M. votes for each share of Du Pont held). Another 20 million shares would be "sterilized," i.e., not voted at all. These are the shares held by the officers and directors of Du Pont and the two other Du Pont family-controlled companies: Delaware Realty & Investment Co., which controls Christiana Securities Co., which in turn controls...
...Soft. Bob Anderson had other complaints. European nations and Japan, said he, are not doing their share to bear the cost of help to the world's underdeveloped nations; they should take over a greater share of the burden from the U.S. To this end Anderson had a pet U.S. project on hand: the establishment of an International Development Association (TIME, Aug. 19) to lend to underdeveloped nations from funds contributed by nations now belonging to the World Bank. The loans would be made on more liberal terms than the World Bank...