Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That brings us up to tomorrow, and I stand here before you to declare that Art Valpey's first season will not be anything like Horween's or Casey's or Harlow's. This statement rests solidly on an uninformed, sentimental hunch. Besides that, you don't often draw four of a kind...
...Stevens remarked: "I am not at all anxious to move." Speculation grew during the course of the spring on the University's attitude toward the Alumni Committee scheme. Then in the April 24 interim report to the public Committee Chairman Saltonstall cast official doubt on the plan with the statement that investigation had disclosed "these memorials could not be constructed except for a sum considerably above" the specified $750,000 limit of a memorial fund-raising drive. The latter "ceiling" was alleged to stem from the concurrent existence of a $90,000,000 all-University drive for general endowment...
Economic Czar Miguel Miranda's mammoth Institute Argentino de Promoción del Intercambio had at last published a financial statement. Anyhow, that is what Miranda called...
Though IAPI (pronounced "yappy") is the world's biggest state trading agency outside Russia, the report was less than a page long. It was unsigned, apparently unaudited. There was no statement of goods on hand. Though European soft-currency countries owe IAPI $732 million for food and other products bought on tick, the only reference to this was a $52 million item called "operations with foreign governments." Finally, without offering any proof, IAPI claimed a thumping 1947 profit of $259 million. "It makes no sense to me," said one Buenos Aires bank manager last week. "It looks...
...Long Shadow. The 30-line statement barely hinted at what a colossus IAPI has become. Founded in 1946 to promote foreign trade, IAPI now handles every principal Argentine export except wool. It makes all purchases abroad for the billion-dollar five-year plan; it is the importing agency for private industries. Through its system of subsidies, it regulates domestic food prices...