Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moral of this story is never trust an accountant with money...
This time it was the $200,000,000 30-branch Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank, third largest in Los Angeles...
...left, swearing never to trust a crystal ball again. They quit on you at the crucial moment. Television will be much better. But I'm going down to the Walnut Cafe tonight to see if I can find that Blonde. No sense in waiting till 1948. Besides I might get along better with her now, while I still have a full head of hair...
...willing, in times of peace, to let salaries and earnings exceed $25,000 a year (for he believes in equality of opportunity, not of rewards), he will endeavor to prevent the growth of a caste system by demanding really effective inheritance and gift taxes and the breaking up of trust funds and estates. Once every generation, in effect, wealth would thus be redistributed. This, Dr. Conant warned, "cannot be lightly pushed aside, for it is the kernel of his philosophy...
...took more than ten years for Congress to exempt U.S. telegraph service from the provisions of the anti-trust laws so that Western Union and Postal Telegraph could merge (TIME, March 8). After that it took less than ten weeks for the two companies to work out the details of a combination to end useless duplication in a business where competition is costly and unproductive. The agreement announced last week: Western Union Telegraph Co. will buy out Postal, through an exchange of stock. Now all that needs to be done to make the merger a fact is for stockholders...