Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cutten believes that college graduates should marry early and have plenty of children. He has three himself. No crony of his faculty or students (says he: "A college president has no friends"), he likes to fish and swap yarns with Yale's Professor Emeritus Billy Phelps. His prime hobby is collecting antique American silver spoons, of which he now has the finest collection in the U.S. At Colgate he often retires to his workshop to hammer spoons himself...
...Major Fleet, 54, the deal is his best chance to swap his huge holdings for hard cash, thus pave the way to diversified investments and an easier life. Trying to sell his shares, Fleet started dickering with...
Friday. The President intimated that some time ago he told his envoy to Moscow to try to swap some Lend-Lease for some religious freedom. Father Walsh backtracks, praises the President's constructive efforts...
Noteworthy fact about the swap: in their new setting in the Supreme Court room, Carpenter's emancipators looked directly across the room at the bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who handed down the anti-Negro Dred Scott decision...
...season's beginning (Aug.1), Commodity Credit Corp. was the world's biggest cotton owner ever. Of its 6,126,482 bales, 4,778,321 are from the 1937 crop, have now cost the Government (including carrying charges) 12.2? a Ib. Now CCC can swap part of these holdings for hard cash. Besides a small profit, the corporation will also get the last laugh on the experts who in 1940 predicted the U.S. would end by burning its cotton hoard...