Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leading method was to import topflight European refugee mathematicians. Of 131 now here, the Foundation brought in 28. The refugees include 16 from Germany's famous Göttingen Mathematical Institute-some ousted Jews, others disgusted "Aryans." Many are "pure" scientists now in the applied field, training students of ballistics, aerodynamics. Three of the Mathematician refugees (including Department Head Richard Courant) are at N.Y.U., two are at Brown, others at Harvard, Chicago, Wisconsin, M.I.T., the New School for Social Research and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton...
...debt reduction, Bob Young boiled over when he first saw the ICC plan: Alleghany's huge holdings in MOP common were tossed out entirely, its 5½% bonds were treated almost as badly. When he took another look he got madder still: the big insurance companies (holding the topflight bonds) would control the road...
...needed cash to buy an ever-rising flood of Government bonds. Whatever the reason, this is a good break for private investors: 1) it makes up for the wartime slack in new municipal financing (towns & cities cannot get materials for new construction); 2) it gives them a crack at topflight bonds which have a good yield and are tax-exempt to boot. Result: private investors have already bought enough municipal bonds to knock the floating supply down to about $50,000,000-a mere drop in the market compared with the potential demand...
Tall, genial Frank H. Bartholomew, 44, is a newsman who has in his time covered for the United Press such topflight news stories as the William Desmond Taylor murder in Los Angeles, the Thalia Fortescue Massie assault case in Honolulu, the Santa Barbara earthquake, the loss of the dirigible Macon. In 1938 he stopped reporting, became a United Press vice president, in charge of the Pacific Coast area. As such he sat behind a San Francisco desk, sent other United Pressmen forth to Pacific battlefields. But Frank Bartholomew grew restless...
...usual starting six tonight. Caleb Loring, Marc Beebe, and Bill Harding form a high-scoring front line, Captain Johnny Paine and Dick Mechem are at defensive posts, and Goodie Harding is at goal. The puck-Chasers are looking ahead to Saturday evening, when they journey to Tigertown and meet topflight opposition, in the form of a tough Princeton six, for the first time...